There was a curious report in The Washington Post late last month. I saw it in no other newspaper.
It began thus: “When Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, launched his attempted mutiny on the morning of June 24, Vladimir Putin was paralyzed and unable to act decisively, according to Ukrainian and other security officials in Europe.” Did you get that? President Vladimir Putin was paralyzed and unable to act decisively. Had Vladi taken aboard a little too much vodka? It was still early morning in Moscow!
It gets worse. “The Russian president had been warned by the Russian security services at least two or three days ahead of time that Prigozhin was preparing a possible rebellion, according to intelligence assessments shared with the Washington Post.” Otherwise, little else was done.
Does it get worse? It does, for President Putin. “Putin had time to take the decision to liquidate (the rebellion) and arrest the organizers,” said one of the European security officials, who was interviewed by the Post. “Then when it (the rebellion) began to happen, there was paralysis on all levels. … There was absolute dismay and confusion. For a long time, they did not know how to react.”
This madcap moment lasted at least 36 hours. Where was Putin? Even worse, where was the president’s cook, Chef Prigozhin? What if Putin got hungry? How about a hamburger? But seriously, where was the president of Russia while all this chaos was taking place? It sounds like no one was in charge. Even worse, it sounds like no one wanted to be charge, not even Chef Prigozhin. If it is true, that no one wanted to lead Russia during this chaotic period, it will go down as the strangest 36 hours in world history. It will be remembered as being the time when Russia went from being a dictatorship governed by Stalin, the man of steel, to being governed by Putin, the man who disappeared for 36 hours and may disappear again. This time for a long time.
Well, at least for now, Putin is back in charge of his increasingly ramshackle country, but a country which seems to be losing its war with Ukraine. Just last week, one of its warships came limping into port at Novorossiysk, Russia, with a gaping hole in its side, the result of its confrontation with a Ukrainian naval drone. How much more can Mother Russia bleed?
Observers are beginning to speak of what type of government Putin has adopted. He is not a communist. Too many oligarchs hover around him, and they all have made too much money. Nor is he a czarist. Again, there are too many enriching themselves from his rule. I believe the most apt term for Putin’s rule is Putin’s Crony System of Government. The large number of mediocre appointees he has brought into public life is typical of his mediocrity. Just look at how mediocre his military has been. As soon as a general or an admiral distinguishes himself in battle, he is fired, or he dies mysteriously in battle.
So back to the piece that provoked my column to begin with. The Washington Post piece reporting how Putin was paralyzed and indecisive from the start. The Post piece reporting how Putin ignored his intelligence people who were attempting to tell him about the impending rebellion. And where did he go for those mysterious 36 hours? Was he hiding? From whom?
Could it be that our Central Intelligence Agency has had enough? Could it be that they have decided to end this intolerable war upon Ukraine? Will our intelligence people reveal the Kremlin as second-rate? Will it help rid the world of Putin and Prigozhin and their convict army? The Russians and the Ukrainians can work things out on their own. And congratulations to The Washington Post. Finally, they got something right. Now, when will the rest of the journalistic community catch up?
Well, it certainly was strange. But similar in some ways to the attempted coup against Hitler in 1944. A German military unit marched into Berlin, not sure who to take orders from. In the event, Hitler who had survived an assassination attempt got on the phone to the officer in command who took Hitler’s orders, and that was the end of the coup.
Somewhat similar to Prighozin’s Russian unit marching deep towards Moscow without being stopped. If it was a foreign unit it would have been clear to the Russians what to do. But what to do against a Russian unit?
WHAT A COMPLETE LOAD OF RUBBISH
I didn’t bother to read it, as the old saying goes consider the source.
Tyrell has gone down the tubes with Ann Coulter. Who believes anything the Washington Post writes?
Use Biden’s name in place of Putin’s, and this makes more sense.
Ann Coulter has lost mind she has Trump Derangement Syndrome. I stopped reading her a few years ago.
Propaganda.
How does the Washington Post know this?
“ the result of its confrontation with a Ukrainian naval drone”
It was a NATO drone not Ukrainian probably paid for by you guys in the USA.
Calling Russia crony is straight out of Marx, accuse your enemies of what you are doing.
Russia certainly was crony at the end of communism but the reason why the elites in the world governments hate Putin seems to be because he won’t accept communism anymore.
And while Putin was riding Motorcycles and Horses Obama and his Family were riding Stupid Bicycles
Didn’t Obama ride a girls bike?
Yes,…a chicken poop little girl wussy bike.
Early ,in the 1980’s, I was a young man totally uneducated by our public school system. Then I stumbled onto “The American Spectator.” The scales fell from my eyes. I suddenly understood why I had rejected learning, it was indoctrination. A new world opened, to me, a world of book reviews, thoughtful movie reviews and so on. Then one day, about fifteen years ago, I suddenly realized Emmett Tyrell is a RINO, a uniparty, deep state cheerleader. For the record, I didn’t read his shitty article.
I should have seen the writing on the wall, when “The American Spectator” operation moved from Indiana, to the valley of Gehenna, otherwise know as D.C.
Emmett Tyrrell writing for Front Page Magazine, why not David French, or David Brock?
This article is so dumb that I’m not even going to leave a comment. And that statement is not even as dumb as this article.
The author of the article use to be my hero, but not anymore.
FPM trying to be inclusive?
Next they’ll have Bill Kristol as contributing editor.
If The Washington Post did get something right it was only by accident.
They didn’t anything right
According to SCOTT RITTER and others only a fraction of Wagner’s forces,and they were lied to by the way, decided to head for Moscow.
One reason Putin and his group decided to let it happen,knowing it all along, was to……………..FIND OUT who else in Russian society would join him(government officials, military officials,etc), to find out SECRET COLLABORATORS of
the GLOBALISTS. they did not yet know about.It turned out nobody was secretly for the overthrow of Putin.
THE RUBLE IS OVER 100 rubles to the dollar:
Before,in 2014 that would mean great economic distress for the Russian economy.
Today,due to the way Putin and his economic team have managed and changed things, it no longer does. The economy of Russia is far stronger.
Scott Ridder? The convicted pedophile??? The ruble strong??? When it’s worth less than a penny? Tell us your drug of choice
Are you not paying attention? Enemies of the swamp will be arrested. ‘Show me the man, and I’ll find a crime’Beria.
ROBERT KENNEDY JR confirms (in an interview with TUCKER CARLSON )what Putin had claimed before:
that the US has created BIOLABS which were producing BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
in Ukraine, and also elsewhere. Under who? Under FAUCI,according to RFK Jr.
Are you going to call him a liar,working for Putin? Check out:
“Tucker Carlson EXPOSES Ukraine Biolab SHOCKING Details” ( 12 min )
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Why is my comment waiting for moderation?
In the book “The Greatest Battle,” once Germany has invaded and attacked Russia, Stalin goes home for a few days. Finally, some of Stalin’s men pay him a visit. He greets them by asking them if they have come to arrest him.
Fear of your own is the price you pay when you rule over them by fear of their own.
Lots of pro ruzzia fascists can’t stand the thought of their man hiding in a bunker like a little girl
Extraordinarily illiterate comment. You obviously know nothing about Russia and Russian opinion.
Who approves publishing this garbage?
“Ramshackle country”? Are you talking about Russia, or the USA? Have you seen the pictures of St Petersburg and Moscow? There are no homeless junkies taking dumps on the street in Russia, no parades with men flaunting their penises in front of children. I thought Emmet Tyrell was supposed to be intelligent.
When he was young man Mr Tyrrell got an award or was voted most likely to do great things, or something. Then he went to too many Washington cocktail parties.
This is just Russophobia nonsense by a shill for the Kievan mafia.
What a garbage article Putin’s mopped NATO’s floor and destroyed the Ukranian armed forces..
i’ve long said……….
CAPTURE PUTIN. POISON HIM!
What did he ever do to you?
I had to double check the banner to make sure I was reading FP Magazine.
What’s happening in Russia is mirrored in America. We are being bankrupted, militarily crushed, divided, and demoralized. America is also being censored with demands for newspeak and no Christianity.
I admire Putin for standing up to the immense pressure to bend over for the WEF and other powers that are pushing an agenda for 2030. And that’s not to say I like him. Don’t bother to accuse me of being a commie sympathizer. Putin doesn’t seem to be a Communist anymore, but who really knows. I respect the man for loving his country enough to face down and stand off the people that o’biden and co. and the rest of the world, are in bed with. He will lose in the end, of course, just as we will also, but in the meantime, what a spine the man has!
As if the CIA or any other part of the Biden regime is conducting it’s business appropriately. As if this thoroughly corrupt Biden regime didn’t intentionally cause this war.
This article is absolute garbage. The author knows nothing about Russia, is historically illiterate, and has no idea.
It is not Russia but Ukraine – and NATO – that are going down the toilet.
I TEACH the history of all the “Russian lands” – today’s Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The author, and other respondents, and Frontpagemag’s editors, should read my analysis here:
WaPo…..seriously? Egads
Sometime around 1985, I’m pretty sure my copy of “The American Spectator” had an advertisement for an obscure magazine called Heterodoxy, David Horowitz was founder and editor.
Indeed! I had to take a second look to see if I was still reading your paper..? It galls me that I have wasted my time reading this stuff instead of making GOOD use of my time pickin’
zits! Get a clue!