At the time of my writing this, Prigozhin has declared victory and says that supplies will be delivered to Wagner. Deja vu! Actually, I thought that he had already successfully shaken Shoigu down two days ago, but Prigozhin continued to go on the attack for another day before he claimed victory again. So, let us assume that he did indeed secure his supplies, this time for sure.
EDIT: IN HIS NEW VIDEO ADDRESS HE DENIES THAT HE WAS GIVEN THE SUPPLIES THAT WERE FORMALLY PROMISED. FFS.
Amusingly, despite me saying that all of this squabbling is “real” in the sense that yes, Prigozhin was using threats and ultimatums to get his way, and me even predicting that he would succeed and get his way this round (in my Russian-language chat). But when news broke that he did indeed secure the bag (of shells) and forced Shoigu and Gerasimov to concede supplies to him, I was immediately made fun of. The people in my chat seemed to think that because Prigozhin didn’t pull out of Bakhmut, that it was all a psy-op, all a “kayfabe” or a psychological operation that I fell for. And since a vocal portion of the people in my chat are copium and state media addicts, it is only a matter of time before this position catches on in Z-Westerner circles as well.
So let me address this point right now.
This is truly a baffling moment and one that I am not sure I understand fully or understand how I feel about it either. I just have this sinking feeling in my gut like when those awful brat kids I used to play with told me that Santa Claus wasn’t real. It’s the same feeling in the gut you get when you see something beautiful and innocent and hopeful dies. I lose all hope the more I interact with people. I truly wish I could rent out some lone studio apartment in the mountains somewhere.
I’ve had enough. No more.
But, perhaps these people are using words in a manner that I am not familiar with. So, in the peasants’ mind, Prigozhin using his words to threaten and humiliate the MoD into giving him more supplies is what they mean by “psy-op” or “multi-step plan”. So, in their minds, they were right, because no pull-out from Bakhmut occurred.
The only problem with that kind of thinking is that it is absolutely retarded.
For any person possessing a triple digit IQ however, what Prigozhin did was “real” in the sense that he threatened the MoD and then got his way again. Pepe Escobar seems to get it:
Done and done and well done. What Prigozhin did, however, is also “real” in the sense that the dirty laundry he aired is real and the threat was probably real as well. If it weren’t, or if the the MoD thought it was unrealistic, they wouldn’t have been forced to cave in to his demands, right? That’s usually how threats work, no? Or do normies not understand the technology behind a threat either?
Come to think of it, seeing all those Q-anoners threatening the federal government while brandishing their guns only to get arrested again and again seems to indicate that some people are, indeed, too stupid to even understand how a threat works. See, if you actually were a potential threat to the federal government, they wouldn’t arrest you so casually and so regularly. It’s counter-intuitive, I guess, to think this way. But it should make senes if you really focus and try to get what I am saying here.
Furthermore, if this was all just elaborate kabuki theater to lure Ukrainians into a trap … well, where is the trap? Wouldn’t that be the proof needed for the “it’s all for show” theory? Do you see a trap? If you do, is this trap in the same room with us right now?
It is truly shocking what absolute kasha most people have sloshing around in their skulls. And yet they surround us, walk among us, speak to us, and ostensibly have the same rights that we do. They’re also probably the ones that get mad on forums like Reddit at the concept of “NPCs” or “Sarkic/Hylic” flesh golems being real. It is no doubt because they dimly seem to understand that the term refers to them.
You know, for most of my life, I was surrounded by smarter than average people. I was in good schools, a prestigious university, always around other students and so on. Even then though, I was always getting called out for acting smart, even though I genuinely wasn’t trying to do that and like most kids, was simply desperate to fit in, but shit at doing it. I wasn’t aware for most of my life just how fucked up most people thought my shit was.
The point is that I now try to simplify things and dumb them down to the absolute lowest common denominator. And even then, I’m always struck by how impossible it is to get even the simplest idea across to some people. It is as if we are speaking two entirely different languages, and by that I don’t mean Russian and English.
Here is what I see as having happened:
Wagner gets too popular, MoD gets threatened/wants to steal more money selling off supplies/gets a call from Langley to stall the war out/whatever the Chinese historians dig up 50 years from now
Supplies drastically fall for Wagner
Prigozhin starts complaining about this FOR MONTHS - just because you weren’t paying attention doesn’t mean that it wasn’t happening
Things come to a head and Wagner issues an ultimatum
Some back and forth scurrying occurs which is all details at this point
MoD caves and gives Wagner the supplies
The Battle of Bakhmut continues
In my mind, this makes perfect sense. It is simple and it is totally bereft of any fanciful 5D conjecture. And yet, it makes literally no sense to the vast majority of the war-watcher public. Why?
I really don’t know.
In contrast, here is their explanation:
Shoigu and Prigozhin hatch a plan with Putin to pretend that they are feuding and that Wagner doesn’t have enough shells
Prigozhin plays his role as the “dark clown” exceedingly well and fools Rolo, Strelkov and NATO into a trap
The trap is sprung and Putin declares victory! Ha! Fooled you!
???
Flawless victory for Putin, the Globalists slapped around like bitches yet again! Praise Yahweh! Patriots in control! 2 more weeks!
Again, this somehow actually makes sense to them. They think that we are the dumb ones that just don’t get it. It is mind-boggling. Truly.
At least the Duran people no longer claim that Prigozhin is in on anything and characterize him as, and I quote Mercouris directly here: “literally Heath Ledger after he snorted those pills and put that make-up on, he really owned that role”. Again, that is a direct quote from Mercouris, who also said, and I quote, “it’s literally a situation like when Joachim Phoenix learns that Wayne is his father and that his mother abused him for years, but that he repressed it and YEETs on them niggas.”
Note: I made those quotes up, but most people will believe literally anything and everything, so next time I won’t clarify and will just roll with it. Most people do not have functioning longterm memory either, so they will forget that I warned them that I would lie to them within a couple of days and still fall for it. It is what it is.
One day I will transcend this world of lies. I am almost there.
But that’s enough of a preamble. We’re about get into the nitty-gritty of Prigozhin’s real political prospects below. I’m genuinely sorry for the poors who cannot afford to join me and and the other Paywall Optimates in our citadel. We sure will miss you on the other side of this velvet line.
Ta!