Wagner Chief Turns on Kremlin & Threatens Putin

It’s all going up in smoke for the Kremlin it seems.

The latest battlefield drama is that Wagner chief Prigozhin has officially turned on his Kremlin paymasters and is threatening to march to Moscow to demand answers from Putin for issues on the battlefield.

He is claiming that Russian forces bombed Wagner camps:

Friction between Prigozhin and the Russian Defense Ministry has risen as the war has dragged on, ultimately reaching a breaking point Friday when Prigozhin accused military leaders of striking Wagner camps and launched an armed insurrection.

He previously complained of being withheld ammunition:

In February, after announcing the end of Wagner’s prisoner recruitment, Prigozhin slammed Russia’s “monstrous” military bureaucracy and leadership for low supplies of munitions that had slowed progress in Bakhmut. “This can be equated with high treason,” Prigozhin said in one of the first direct accusations. The truce appeared to be short-lived as Prigozhin again claimed “betrayal” over the military’s continuing lack of deliveries to Wagner mercenaries. “In order to stop me from asking for ammunition, [Russia’s government] turned off all special phone lines […] and blocked all passes to the decision-making offices,” Prigozhin said.

So really this is just about him not being able to kill Ukrainians sufficiently. It’s not a genuine change a heart about the war. He has made one interesting comment though, saying the war itself was based on lies about security threats that weren’t imminent, and the real objective was plunder:

Russia did not face an imminent security threat to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary outfit, said in a bombshell video posted on social media Friday. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine were not going to attack Russia with the NATO bloc,” Prigozhin explained in the half-hour tirade released by his press service. “The Russian Defense Ministry is deceiving the public and the president,” he added. Prigozhin’s comments were at odds with the casus belli given by President Vladimir Putin when he ordered troops into Ukraine last February, although the private army chief avoided personally attacking the Russian leader. Putin has cited NATO expansion near Russia’s borders as one of the main justifications for invading neighboring Ukraine.

“Shoigu killed thousands of the most combat-ready Russian soldiers in the first days of the war,” he charged. “The mentally ill scumbags decided ‘It’s okay, we’ll throw in a few thousand more Russian men as ‘cannon fodder.’ ‘They’ll die under artillery fire, but we’ll get what we want’,” Prigozhin continued. “That’s why it has become a protracted war.” Prigozhin also accused Kremlin-linked oligarchs of seeking to plunder Ukraine’s resources after its military capture and appointment of a puppet regime in Kyiv. “The task was to divide material assets in Ukraine. There was widespread theft in the [industrial eastern Ukrainian territory of the] Donbas, but they wanted more.”

Putin has resorted to calling up his trusted Muslim Chechen warriors to put down the Wagner rebellion.

Now the nibbas are coming to Putin’s defense:

The son of Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, said he would send Ugandan troops to defend Moscow in case of an “imperialist” threat. “Call me +Putinist+ if you want, we Uganda should send soldiers to defend Moscow if ever it was threatened by imperialists,” he wrote on Twitter. “The West is wasting its time with useless pro-Ukrainian propaganda,” added the president’s son, a staunch supporter of Vladimir Putin. He also announced on Thursday the creation of a television and radio channel bearing his brand, “MK.”

So Putin’s black and Muslim warriors are ready to die for the KGB regime.

Remember though that Prigozhin is an evil sociopath who happily signed up to Putin’s war in Ukraine and led the battles to destroy its cities. This is just an internal power struggle between equally repulsive Russian factions, both of which agree that Ukraine is just a “satellite” of Russia and should be subdued by force. His main complaints with Russian leadership were not that this war is wrong, but that his forces were not being given the sufficient resources to prosecute it harder. If he were truly against this war, he would have opposed from the start, not 1.5 years into it when things are going badly.

In other words, he’s still a rancid pile of shit and this in no way exonerates him from his war crimes in Ukraine and elsewhere.