its also a problem for the younger ones....so this joke doesn't really make sense unless you say thats common symptoms of an autocrat in general. And even that doesnt really.....like you're trying to make a situation fit a joke instead of a joke fit the situation. you're reaching a bit, yea? Maybe reach a bit more for our premature evacuators? either you can't get it up or you...evacuate...there really isn't any two ways to it.....if you can't get it up then theres no evacuation...
So it turns out putting an ex con Hot Dog salesman with anger issues a in charge of the biggest merc group in Russia, allowing him to recruit prisoners, freeing murders and rapists making them completely loyal to the Hot Dog salesman, wasn’t the best idea looking back on it.
I thought Kudos was a candy and not a good one either. I guess its supposed to be said for doing something note worthy....posting videos fast isn't note worthy....some people can make a video in 6 hours, and that still isn't note worthy. But yea, lets keep using the dumbed down version of the words we used to use and wonder why people look at us like idiots.
So an ex-KGB agent had his rule challenged by a convict-turned-caterer-turned-mercenary leader? This sounds like something out the Russian version of Idiocracy rather than a Tom Clancy novel.
_"Good news first: the world's in great shape. We've got a civil war in Russia, government loyalists against ultranationalists rebels, and 15000 nukes at stake."_ The intro to _Call of Duty: Modern Warfare_ hits a bit different in 2023.
Incredible how undefended Russia is now with nearly every capable combat units in Ukraine. Those Wagner advanced near 1000km through the country straight toward Moscow in less than 2 days with nothing able to even slow them.
When they did that last May Day Parade with no up to date equipment, they told the world they really had nothing left. China and the US can conquer Siberia right now IF both nations wanted to with little or no opposition from the Russian military because EVERYTHING is on the frontline in Ukraine.
It's clear now that Russia relies almost entirely on its nuclear arsenal to prevent invasion. Against an enemy that doesn't have territory to nuke, it's completely helpless.
@@black10872 China or the US can conquer the entire Russia at just about any time if they wanted to and there was no threat of nuclear war. Russia has achieved nothing with their invasion of Ukraine other than demonstrate to the world that they really are just a loud bully with no muscle behind their words and that Wagner is the only halfway capable fighting force in the country since they don't have to play by any rules. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the reason Putin haven't resorted to using nuclear weapons yet is because they are afraid the world finds out that their nuclear arsenal is also just another lie. If Wagner can go from the border to just outside Moscow in a day, then a relatively small, but well planned, invasion by NATO would likely be able to capture the Kremlin and cripple or capture most of Russia's essential military infrastructure (runways and supply depots) in a few days.
It's like USA invaded Mexico to purge it of communists, got several bloody noses and had to withdraw repeatedly. Then a PMC ran by McDonalds got at loggerheads with DoD, seized Austin and drove unopposed at Washington D.C to the sounds of several Apaches being shot down. Biden flew to California and had to be saved by Justin Trudeau negotiating a settlement. I know some people think that USA isn't a serious country, but if someone like that reads this, know that the rabbit hole of absurdity goes so much deeper.
As a history buff, I've read a lot more absurd stuff that our ancestors did before that I've more or less been quite decensetized by Wagner's Munity, lmao. Wagner's Mutiny does not come close to Tsar Peter III's decision to switch swides during the Seven Year's War, imo.
Stop being a sheep and writing the same thing that 10,000 others wrote before you. If you going to make a smart comment come up with your own words. Nerd
@@josephgriffin2388 Jan 6th? Do you mean that time a bunch white supremacist fascists tried to overturn a democratic election in the US? Yeah, that's totally the same thing buddy.
@@dearmas9068 We don't even have an admission of what happened to Nordstream and that happened months ago. We don't know the facts yet and anyone who says we do is an idiot.
well since all simon does is read....literally nothing else other than be annoying and go off topic or ruin the topic thats about to be talked about....and while simon is reading filming one video, the other people have already written a video and just need Simon to finish and start the next one..... there can be 20 videos in que and it takes less than a day to record....so with this type of stuff, there should be multiple videos coming out...but you wanna honk his horn about something not very quick, specially when theres channels with 1 person teams who crank out quality content DAILY, with multiple uploads a day. So yea...honk the horn to a guy who just reads, he needs some more fellatio
I’ve been listening to the casual criminalist lately. When I hear him mention how he makes videos all day I’ve never truly realized how many projects this legend has.
I find myself seeing current events and thinking "WhistleBoy will have a filed day with this... Can't wait to hear it in 2 months." This immediate response is AMAZING! Thank you and Evan and Jen for the quick turn! 🎉
I have been looking forward to this so much! I love how your investigations are always put into broader context, instead of how news articles just focus on one headline thing!
that's cause this isn't being done like a news article but rather a moment of HISTORY.......so if you look at this guy and see the news, you don't understand the point then.
6:11 Hey factboy! Shoigu is not technically part of Russia's military elite. Don't let the uniform and "medals" confuse you, he has never served in the military. He is a civilian appointee in charge of the military, not actual military.
@@borismuller86 No his authority and power is derived entirely from his appointment by Putin, not from any respect or loyalty given to him from the military (either the leadership or the rank and file). Shoigu is AN elite, but the nuance of HOW he an elite is important.
@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Russian general staff officers, sure. That is how generals in most nations get the position, through political appointment. However Lt. Smirnoff and Cpt. Molotov aren't getting appointed by political elites, and even the more senior officer ranks like Major and Colonel are usually promoted by their superior officers and are not political appointments.
Zelensky is a goddamn stud I tell you what. Was asked to leave Kiev when it was “ almost” surrounded and he flat out said no. Man also went to bahkmut when 50%+ of it was held by Russia. Zelensky is a mastif. Putins a chihuahua.
not really russians expected just that 30% liberals knew 50% conformists knew that nothing works in this country only the remaining 20% of nazis believed in coup
Seems to me it's a convenient way to post 25 to 50,00 Wagner troops in Belarus. Allowing Russia to attack from the northwest an force Ukraine to divide there forces and thus put an end to their counter offensive attack..
@@davidheckt3398ah yes, which is why they blew up irreplaceable (as long as western sanctions hold) air assets and bridges that will take awhile to replace
@@davidheckt3398Oh please 🙄🤡 They could’ve sent Wagner straight to Belarus, without the drama and making Pootin look weak AF. No way I see the bunker grandpa agreeing to such a thing! That talking point sailed days ago, try and keep up eh? SMH!
literally nothing complex or confusing it's russian politics 101 1 wagner become to politically popular for 15-20% nazis in population 2 pukin got jealous and stopped privately talking to wagner 3 wagner went public making his situation even worse 4 pukin signed order for all paramilitary to enlist in the army legally and officially 5 that mean that wagner would be literally killed by kgb just like it was done in 2014 with all fake separatists. BY HIS HANDS 6 wagner went all in and staged a fake coup while he still had supporters 7 having good bargaining position wagner negotiated escape plan, being safe from step 5 8 if wagner actually wanted he could plausibly take over moscow, pukin is now publicly weak, russia is a fucking failed state and now european polititians who helped pukin for the last 20 years saw it just like 30% of russians were telling them all this time and 50% knew but were not talking to anyone
Not sure I'd want an illegal para-military group led by an ex-con getting control of one of the world's largest nuclear stockpiles. I'd be very curious to hear what deal was made and who exactly was involved because I expect its not just Russia that was worried about that march to Moscow.
The reason Belarus volunteered to welcome Wagner is because of the threat to Lukashenko. Immediately following Wagner starting their march, people within Belarus and exiled military Belarusian commanders were calling for a revolution to drive out the Russian army and overthrow Lukashenko. Lukashenko is deeply unpopular and only in power through intimidation and force, in large part with Russia's assistance. The loyalty of his own army is questionable. Having Wagner there who he can pay to enforce his rule will stave off regime collapse. For Russia, this helps stabilize their sphere of influence for the time being. Cracks are appearing all across their sphere of influence. Kazakhstan's cold diplomatic attitude, flair ups in Nagorno Karabakh, unrest in Georgia, tensions in Transnistria. With Russia's flagging strength, their whole sphere is unstable. A single volatile event in one of their satellites could cause the whole thing to collapse. And the implosion of Lukashenko's regime could do just that. And as we just saw, Russia's military strength is almost entirely tied up in Ukraine. If all these flash points went off at once, they would have no means of reasserting their presence or even securing their borders
@@tristizzy Thank you! What a great compliment! I'm a real person but I probably annoy people just as much as a chatbot with too much confidence and not enough insight or hard facts.
@@Nuvendil And that in my honest opinion what Ukraine is waiting for. Why lose thousands more citizen you will nee,d when you can just do hit and run tactic and wait till all those "Collosus" colapse under war attrition.
Hi Gary, i like most of Simones Vids and his humor very much. But: Have he ever made a video of the sinking of the Lusitania (with the subsequent pogroms in the UK?) used to manipulate the US population into WWI? Churchill secretly had weapons and ammunition loaded onto the ocean liner Lusitania. Germany was deliberately informed of this and they sank the ship as hoped. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania It is well known that in every war the truth dies first. And again and again the famous en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda were confirmed. These have proven themselves over 100 years and are scientifically backed. And not only Russia and China can lie, but also the West. Above all the Anglo-Saxons (whom I appreciate and like very much). See all invented war reasons like: 1) the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin invented by the USA to intervene in the Vietnam War, as has long been declassified: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident (that was because it was another CIA -Action didn't work, in which they cowardly murdered 22,000 Vietnamese teachers and intellectuals. Each dead person had an ace of poke card stuffed in their mouths as a warning, pure mafia fanaticism. The USA also worked with the mafia because they were from Italy and knew his way around Sicily. That should help to have fewer casualties in WW2.). 2) the incubator lie that Busch senior used to attack Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony (the alleged witness was a total fake!) 3) Alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so Busch junior could invade Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War 4) Yugoslavia or Balkan War: "they drive them into concentration camps", with a photo through a fence so that the people behind could be portrayed as prisoners etc pp The Anglo-Saxons invented reasons for war again and again. And then always leaving chaos (why is Biden rushed out of Afghanistan just before the Ukraine war? And what happened in Afghanistan then?). Why have the US and NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian military since 2014? Is it known how Hitler's army was celebrated in Ukraine? The Ukrainians quickly created huge SS units that carried out the worst massacres of Poles and Jews (it is also interesting how the Hitler army took Crimea and what Germany did there. At that time, tobacco was grown there with over 20 thousand forced labourers. Thousands of them Children And the effort with which the Soviet Union recaptured Crimea. Just don't tell anyone it was a long time ago. Every year in the UK a big feast is celebrated for their victims in the Crimean War 1853-56.) There used to be a big movie about fakes like this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog with Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro. In it, the world is led to believe that there is a war with the small, unknown Albania in order to distract attention from a misdemeanor on the part of the POTUS and to save its election campaign. The United States has also organized revolutions abroad on several occasions. Declassified US government documents show how this was organized by the CIA in Iran as early as the 1950's: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat This was the blueprint for many more such Actions. The so-called color revolutions, like the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004. Also already on the Maidan. And because that didn't help, then again in 2014, as evidenced by telephone recordings by Victoria Nuland from the US State Department (at least the snipers didn't come from the then President of Ukraine). How convenient that Selinsky comes from the media business. He famously became president for playing a Ukrainian president in a TV series. Although his election results outside of Kiev remained low. His party had not won any of its candidates in the last elections just before the war. Incidentally, he had already banned many parties and media before the war. And many more when the war started (see also the torture center in the Mariupul library). In contrast, there has been little coverage in the West of Putin's 2001 Shanghai 5 project. This resulted in a very large trade association, which was completed in 2017. And why Russia is known to be less affected by the economic sanctions of the West than the West itself. The West has also ignored the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a USSR success. The US not only had to pledge never to intervene in Cuba. But they also had to withdraw from Turkey the nuclear missiles that could easily have hit Moscow. Russia successfully prevented this. But the West lied to its people that only they had won. But the plans for war lies were already prepared. For which even US citizens and a popular astronaut should be murdered. See OP Northwoods: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods The Russians have been invaded from abroad several times in history. Over a third of all WW2 dead worldwide were USSR citizens! Putin is an old fox and secret service agent. He knows exactly what he is doing and is well informed. A wise man from the CIA also confirmed this: Andrew Bustamante at Lex Friedman: ruclips.net/video/T3FC7qIAGZk/видео.html&pp=ygUXbGV4IGZyaWRtYW4gYnVzdGFtYW50ZSA%3D (also confirmed by a longtime adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State Collin Powell that: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson t.co/1FOr702hsC ) So be careful what they want you to believe! The famous Karl Krauss once said that you could see bombs exploding over a city just because it was mistakenly reported by the press. He also said that what is being done in newsrooms today will be atoned for by the peoples on the battlefield tomorrow. It must finally be an end to all the wars. We are in the 21st century and we should make sure that every child in the world can go to school and to the doctor. We need more real medical doctors than spindoctors. And much more peace and better understanding. Understanding the West knows exactly who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline. The Pulitzer Prize winner Seymore Hearsh has also demonstrated that the combat gas for the poison gas attack in Syria came there via Turkey. On the same way on which a son of the Turkish president bought the IS oil from IS cheaply. Later, Turkey was allowed to occupy military areas of Syria. And it is looked away when Turkey attacks NATO partner Greece militarily. Whether in Cyprus or in previous years at sea. There are many exciting stories for videos here, right? But please not just CoFR lies. With the structures of the US-American Council on Foreign Relations (CoFR), the public has been manipulated in the states of the West for decades. Incidentally, a very large American thought factory also explained many years ago that the borders in the Middle East would have to be re-drawn. Back then, a lot of things went wrong under the British mandate power. Hillary Clinton had already announced for flight advertising zones there, as it also existed in the Iraq war. Because Wikileaks knew that, they decided to support them because they didn't want to support war. Ukraine was never equal to Russia. Russia is a completely different league. As a nuclear power and far, far more staff. All the best to you and your family. And to the people of Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is culturally much closer to Russia than to the west. There you see the same films, hear the same music and have a long, long history together. YT-channel Bald & Bankrupt has been to Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia several times: the same everywhere: too little money and job opportunities and all had family members in prison camps in Siberia. PS: the West has to be careful when believing its own lies. A German minister was amazed as he drove to a conference on the Ukraine war at the US base in Rammstein. In a major TV interview, he said that he had assumed that everyone there would scold Germany just because that was constantly being said and written in the German media (CoFR structures there have been particularly strong for decades). the reality was very different. If even the secretary of defense doesn't know the true situation... PPS: As in Gaza, it is in Syria also about routes for pipelines. It's always about money and influence. No matter what is shown to us.
Fact Boi is the GOAT for getting this out so quickly! I was literally about to start looking up the facts about this story but now I'll just get it from my most trusted source! Keep up the great work Simon and your team!
Hi Jeff, i like most of Simones Vids and his humor very much. But: Have he ever made a video of the sinking of the Lusitania (with the subsequent pogroms in the UK?) used to manipulate the US population into WWI? Churchill secretly had weapons and ammunition loaded onto the ocean liner Lusitania. Germany was deliberately informed of this and they sank the ship as hoped. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania It is well known that in every war the truth dies first. And again and again the famous en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda were confirmed. These have proven themselves over 100 years and are scientifically backed. And not only Russia and China can lie, but also the West. Above all the Anglo-Saxons (whom I appreciate and like very much). See all invented war reasons like: 1) the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin invented by the USA to intervene in the Vietnam War, as has long been declassified: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident (that was because it was another CIA -Action didn't work, in which they cowardly murdered 22,000 Vietnamese teachers and intellectuals. Each dead person had an ace of poke card stuffed in their mouths as a warning, pure mafia fanaticism. The USA also worked with the mafia because they were from Italy and knew his way around Sicily. That should help to have fewer casualties in WW2.). 2) the incubator lie that Busch senior used to attack Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony (the alleged witness was a total fake!) 3) Alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so Busch junior could invade Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War 4) Yugoslavia or Balkan War: "they drive them into concentration camps", with a photo through a fence so that the people behind could be portrayed as prisoners etc pp The Anglo-Saxons invented reasons for war again and again. And then always leaving chaos (why is Biden rushed out of Afghanistan just before the Ukraine war? And what happened in Afghanistan then?). Why have the US and NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian military since 2014? Is it known how Hitler's army was celebrated in Ukraine? The Ukrainians quickly created huge SS units that carried out the worst massacres of Poles and Jews (it is also interesting how the Hitler army took Crimea and what Germany did there. At that time, tobacco was grown there with over 20 thousand forced labourers. Thousands of them Children And the effort with which the Soviet Union recaptured Crimea. Just don't tell anyone it was a long time ago. Every year in the UK a big feast is celebrated for their victims in the Crimean War 1853-56.) There used to be a big movie about fakes like this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog with Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro. In it, the world is led to believe that there is a war with the small, unknown Albania in order to distract attention from a misdemeanor on the part of the POTUS and to save its election campaign. The United States has also organized revolutions abroad on several occasions. Declassified US government documents show how this was organized by the CIA in Iran as early as the 1950's: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat This was the blueprint for many more such Actions. The so-called color revolutions, like the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004. Also already on the Maidan. And because that didn't help, then again in 2014, as evidenced by telephone recordings by Victoria Nuland from the US State Department (at least the snipers didn't come from the then President of Ukraine). How convenient that Selinsky comes from the media business. He famously became president for playing a Ukrainian president in a TV series. Although his election results outside of Kiev remained low. His party had not won any of its candidates in the last elections just before the war. Incidentally, he had already banned many parties and media before the war. And many more when the war started (see also the torture center in the Mariupul library). In contrast, there has been little coverage in the West of Putin's 2001 Shanghai 5 project. This resulted in a very large trade association, which was completed in 2017. And why Russia is known to be less affected by the economic sanctions of the West than the West itself. The West has also ignored the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a USSR success. The US not only had to pledge never to intervene in Cuba. But they also had to withdraw from Turkey the nuclear missiles that could easily have hit Moscow. Russia successfully prevented this. But the West lied to its people that only they had won. But the plans for war lies were already prepared. For which even US citizens and a popular astronaut should be murdered. See OP Northwoods: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods The Russians have been invaded from abroad several times in history. Over a third of all WW2 dead worldwide were USSR citizens! Putin is an old fox and secret service agent. He knows exactly what he is doing and is well informed. A wise man from the CIA also confirmed this: Andrew Bustamante at Lex Friedman: ruclips.net/video/T3FC7qIAGZk/видео.html&pp=ygUXbGV4IGZyaWRtYW4gYnVzdGFtYW50ZSA%3D (also confirmed by a longtime adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State Collin Powell that: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson t.co/1FOr702hsC ) So be careful what they want you to believe! The famous Karl Krauss once said that you could see bombs exploding over a city just because it was mistakenly reported by the press. He also said that what is being done in newsrooms today will be atoned for by the peoples on the battlefield tomorrow. It must finally be an end to all the wars. We are in the 21st century and we should make sure that every child in the world can go to school and to the doctor. We need more real medical doctors than spindoctors. And much more peace and better understanding. Understanding the West knows exactly who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline. The Pulitzer Prize winner Seymore Hearsh has also demonstrated that the combat gas for the poison gas attack in Syria came there via Turkey. On the same way on which a son of the Turkish president bought the IS oil from IS cheaply. Later, Turkey was allowed to occupy military areas of Syria. And it is looked away when Turkey attacks NATO partner Greece militarily. Whether in Cyprus or in previous years at sea. There are many exciting stories for videos here, right? But please not just CoFR lies. With the structures of the US-American Council on Foreign Relations (CoFR), the public has been manipulated in the states of the West for decades. Incidentally, a very large American thought factory also explained many years ago that the borders in the Middle East would have to be re-drawn. Back then, a lot of things went wrong under the British mandate power. Hillary Clinton had already announced for flight advertising zones there, as it also existed in the Iraq war. Because Wikileaks knew that, they decided to support them because they didn't want to support war. Ukraine was never equal to Russia. Russia is a completely different league. As a nuclear power and far, far more staff. All the best to you and your family. And to the people of Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is culturally much closer to Russia than to the west. There you see the same films, hear the same music and have a long, long history together. YT-channel Bald & Bankrupt has been to Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia several times: the same everywhere: too little money and job opportunities and all had family members in prison camps in Siberia. PS: the West has to be careful when believing its own lies. A German minister was amazed as he drove to a conference on the Ukraine war at the US base in Rammstein. In a major TV interview, he said that he had assumed that everyone there would scold Germany just because that was constantly being said and written in the German media (CoFR structures there have been particularly strong for decades). the reality was very different. If even the secretary of defense doesn't know the true situation... PPS: As in Gaza, it is in Syria also about routes for pipelines. It's always about money and influence. No matter what is shown to us.
Thanks for this insightful video on such an eventful weekend. It is so hard to figure out what is actually happening and why. I’m just relieved larger bloodshed was avoided at the 11th hour.
Some say coup attempt. Others say friendly fire incident gone bad. I call it what it is: a group of mercs requested a pay too high for Russia to cough up, so Russia tried to get rid of them with other means... and failed. Mercs got pissed off and did what unpaid mercs do - they occupied some places and started looting whatever wasnt nailed to the floor. Once they got their fill - they eased up. The end. PS: history has plenty of cases like this: mercs go unpaid, they get angry and cause trouble, state enlisting them decides to put them down. Problem is... Russia wasnt able to, due to financial issues/indecisiveness/incompetence/any or all of the above. The "plenty of cases" ive referred to? Read up about a merc group called "Lisowczycy" ("lisowczyks"). See how they ended up after they started causing trouble in the wrong places...
I agree partly with your analysis. Mercenaries became upset about too low pay and being used as cannon fodder. The Russian military tried to get rid of them and failed but I don't think it was much looting going on. Yeah, they did get payed off with something but I am not sure of what they got. It certainly is not something that haven't happened before and during the 30 year war it was pretty common since all nations used mercs at the time, some like Sweden in fact had far more mercenaries then actual soldiers. During the viking age, this was also very common and the Romans used a lot of mercenaries too which didn't end great for them. Having people fighting for money have always had it's issues and when those troops are better then their employers armies, the employer are taking certain risks. I don't think we have heard the last of this yet and there are 2 other pretty large and competent Russian mercenary groups fighting in Ukraine who also could act in a way Russia wouldn't like.
Or some rich enemy paid the mercs to cause some chaos. But the russians got a sniff of it and now the merc boss is really really in danger. Win win for the rich enemy
Seems to me it's a convenient way to post 25 to 50,00 Wagner troops in Belarus. Allowing Russia to attack from the northwest an force Ukraine to divide there forces and thus put an end to their counter offensive attack..
As a Moscoviet, who have been living in the city for all my life, I saw different reaction of my friends and relatives on Saturday. Most of them, as well as me, didn't care at all and watched the current event as a show. But I know a person who was worried too much and sent his family outside the city. Most of people in Moscow lived their usual life that day.
@@livethefuture2492 Exactly. I think you are absolutely right. We're just used to it and look at this as a fun, although it's not funny at all. I remember myself at age of 15 in August 1991 and two years later in October 1993. I walked around the city centre and try to be as close as possible to the events in spite of danger. The funniest thing is that some of Yeltsin's supporter in 1991 were on the opposite side of barricade in 1993.
@@livethefuture2492 if someone (like mushustin) kills pukin tomorrow, says well it's time to leave mumbas, crimea and also gift rostov and siberia to ukraina... literally no on would care and proceed with their lives as if nothing happened
@@HistoryteacherAlex some of the people hiding behind yeltsin in 1993 are now sitting in the kremlin and screaming that yeltsin destroyed usssr oh no usssr was so good bad yeltsin bad
Russias forces aren't found in 2 separate groups, it's split in to DOZENS. Shoygu himself has his own PMC operating on the ground. The regular army itself is split into troops raised separately by province. The airforce also operates separately and often in competition. GAZPROM even has its own merc force. This is one of the reasons Russian forces communicate with eachother in the clear so often: they don't trust EACHOTHER enough to share their crypto keys with one another.
The irony of russia invading another country, and somehow manages to loose ground without the other army even going into russia. . . this is getting so irony that it generated its own magnetic field, we could wind some copper wire around it and use it to power the entire world.
Once again I have to give props to Simon's writing team on the quality of content here. Truly appreciated is your propensity to keep an ear to the ground and provide us all with timely news in language we can understand.
And added props for great lines like the "We've seen the Russian army go from the second most powerful army in the world, to the second most powerful army in Ukraine, and now the second most powerful army in Russia." That one killed me.
@@mikep3226 My buddy wrote this:) Took him hours of intensive research on top of his previous familiarity with the situation & his degrees in the subject area.
This might seem like a wild idea but by doing this you give the appearance that he's exiled an enemy and his force, that has been among the most effective Russia has had thus far, to a point less than 100 miles from Kyiv while Ukraine likely has the bulk of its forces in the south conducting a counter-offensive. Was Putin in fear of Prigozhin or were both putting on Academy Award performances?
Only Prigozhin has been sent to Belarus. Unless this fat bald man has turned into a super soldier overnight, he's not going to attack Ukraine from Belarus. There are enough NATO satellites with their eyes locked on this whole region that large Wagner movements are not going to go unnoticed by Western intelligence.
Ukraine has been reinforcing it's northern border ever since the start of the war, so 25k more troops shouldn't matter too much. What I've been thinking is, there were some tactical nukes transferred to Belarus recently, and now there's a "rogue" paramilitary group in Belarus (that has a weak and illegitimate president.) Maybe it is some sort of 4D chess move...
Think, would you destabilize your regime and get huge prestige hit to move 20k infantry to attack Fortified enemy capitol ? One you failed to conquer when you got elements of suprise , air superiority , equipment advantage and 200k soldiers, fully trained , not conscripts? Answer yourself.
I want to know what the wagner mercs think as they've gone from being well paid (i heard $3 -4000 per month), relatively well supplied and independant to being made into blackmailed conscripts with little chance of surviving very long and having a death sentence that can be arbitarily imposed at any time.
This coup reminded me of the failed coup against Erdogan in Turkey several years ago. Only in that case once the coup failed the perpetrators did indeed 'disappear' so to speak. In this case we have no idea what the backroom deal was regarding Prigozhin's fate. Initially I thought it could have been a false flag operation by Putin himself to enable him to withdraw from Ukraine and end the war while saving face(or well, what's left of it) WW1 style. However at this point with the abrupt ending of the coup this option seems extremely unlikely. Still I wonder how this will affect the war as the Wagner soldiers on the ground can't be happy with this chain of events. The Russian MOD soldiers too for that matter, not that they needed any more reasons to demoralize, they have plenty of those already...
With a border 50 miles from Kyiv while Kyiv has large numbers of forces committed to a counter-offensive to the south and east. Happenstance? Coincidence? Or enemy action?
So the Russian army has gone from being the second best army in the world, to being the second best army in Ukraine, and is now apparently the second best army in Russia.
@@thejason755 i wouldn't put much stock in the Chechens though (they were outside Rostov on Don), from what i understand all they are capable of is raping civilians/goats and posting on tik tok
What happened is a deal between 2 dictators and warlord, positioned about 25,000 Russian, Chechen and Wagner troops an afternoon drive from Kharkiv, with another ~20,000 Wagners meeting up in Belarus with 30,000 prepositioned Russian troops.
@@SS-gw3cb This is a full spectrum conflict, there is no tactical surprise. Both sides have to move in the information space. Whatever else did, didn't, or might happen, 25,000 troops just moved to the Belgorod AO and no one is giving it a second thought.
@@springbloom5940 Who said 25k troops moved to Belarus? Just Prigozhin moved there. Wagner troops were ordered to return to their station by russian government, that means they will return to ukraine.
Thank you SO much Simon 4 so eloquently explaining a situation that had me fascinated but lost and educating me on such a wide plethora of information in my time spent on ur channels
The USA version of Wagner PMC is called Balckwater, and it's run by Betsy DeVos's brother Erick Prince. Just in case you thought the USA would not do the exact same thing
So you’re saying blackwater hasn’t engaged in war crimes in iraq or Afghanistan on the behest of the occupation forces? If you believe that, you’re even more stupid than the average right winger
@@badluck5647 Not even during the height of the Iraq War did the US rely so heavily on Blackwater as Russia did for Wagner. This would be like if Blackwater seized Virginia Beach and marched onto DC only to stand down after Justin Trudeau mediates a deal.
@@TheRealAb216 That's exactly what Putin would say of Wagner, they were only used to secure civilian infrastructure like gold mines, same way Blackwater "secured" oil rigs in Iraq. These two groups are identical in purpose, mission and action. Don't be deluded into believing that some mercenaries are better just because they're american scum instead of russian scum.
What? 40 minutes ago and already 6.7k views. Damn, Simon, I dare say the Ukraniun War hasn't just profited arms makers so far. Great video on the subject!
@draconightwalker4964 oh heck, yeah! I was excited to just see another Warographics pop up so soon. When I saw the subject matter, my interest was truly piqued.
It was amazing to see unfold in real time, but then nothing happened. The on the ground news dried up. Then the streams of obvious propaganda started. Thanks for the wrap up, factboi, i know you are literally on the doorstep of the action and your writers for this channel are thorough. I honestly wasn't expecting anything this comprehensive so soon from you. It happened so fast most social media didn't know it happened, and here you are on day 4 giving a blow by blow. (Well the major blows) Keep us posted!
Seems to me it's a convenient way to post 25 to 50,00 Wagner troops in Belarus. Allowing Russia to attack from the northwest an force Ukraine to divide there forces and thus put an end to their counter offensive attack..
@davidheckt3398 I don't think Wagner has that many troops at its disposal, and I really don't think it was a way to move mass troops. They didn't need a ruse to do that. All I could think watching the broadcast was, I'm looking at a dead man walking. No one says that stuff publicly, not that way. No one chucks a pre organised tantrum on that scale, in Russia. The aftermath will change the world, but I don't see it as more than a frustrated rant and a momentary lapse of control by a man pushed to the edge of endurance,that will echo through the ages.
@@davidheckt3398 Nah, they could easily have done it more secretly for one, and, two, if Belarus was to allow an opening of the second front, then it would have done so a year ago. As the result, now some of newly produced heavy equipment, instead to the front, will go to rosgvardia, the army lost a fair amount of most experienced troops, and everyone has seen that putin can be toppled.
A bit of advice for future coup attempts... 1) make sure your Head Office (full of cash and loot from Africa) is not accessible to your target (or better yet, not in the same city) 2) make sure that anything that could be used as leverage against you (your "Bobrov" passport for instance) is in your possession or at least in a safe place. 3) make sure you have some "novochok" antidote if you're heading to Moscow.
first you have to make sure your leader doesn't own troll fabrica and is not lying and is not just trying to cash in your lives to save his and abandon you
1. U think they have one Office with a Safe full of Cash? And you think losing some cash would be a bad trade to becoming the most powerful man in russia?
"Russia went from being the second most powerful army in the world. To being the second most powerful army in Ukraine." Simon, this script is incredibly well written. Kudos to your writer!
СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ ❤🇺🇦 If anyone (like me) wants to obsess over this further, the channel Silicone Curtain is a great resource for obsessing further. Lots of interviews with various experts and locals and really detangles a lot of the cultural, political and military issues in Russia and in regards to their invasion of Ukraine.
Thank you for covering that. It's good to get a better picture of whats going on and more information on this group especially seeing how all the information doesn't seem to make headlines or topics across the sea thanks Evan for writing on that topic
Hi Rachel, i like most of Simones Vids and his humor very much. But: Have he ever made a video of the sinking of the Lusitania (with the subsequent pogroms in the UK?) used to manipulate the US population into WWI? Churchill secretly had weapons and ammunition loaded onto the ocean liner Lusitania. Germany was deliberately informed of this and they sank the ship as hoped. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania It is well known that in every war the truth dies first. And again and again the famous en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda were confirmed. These have proven themselves over 100 years and are scientifically backed. And not only Russia and China can lie, but also the West. Above all the Anglo-Saxons (whom I appreciate and like very much). See all invented war reasons like: 1) the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin invented by the USA to intervene in the Vietnam War, as has long been declassified: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident (that was because it was another CIA -Action didn't work, in which they cowardly murdered 22,000 Vietnamese teachers and intellectuals. Each dead person had an ace of poke card stuffed in their mouths as a warning, pure mafia fanaticism. The USA also worked with the mafia because they were from Italy and knew his way around Sicily. That should help to have fewer casualties in WW2.). 2) the incubator lie that Busch senior used to attack Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony (the alleged witness was a total fake!) 3) Alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so Busch junior could invade Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War 4) Yugoslavia or Balkan War: "they drive them into concentration camps", with a photo through a fence so that the people behind could be portrayed as prisoners etc pp The Anglo-Saxons invented reasons for war again and again. And then always leaving chaos (why is Biden rushed out of Afghanistan just before the Ukraine war? And what happened in Afghanistan then?). Why have the US and NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian military since 2014? Is it known how Hitler's army was celebrated in Ukraine? The Ukrainians quickly created huge SS units that carried out the worst massacres of Poles and Jews (it is also interesting how the Hitler army took Crimea and what Germany did there. At that time, tobacco was grown there with over 20 thousand forced labourers. Thousands of them Children And the effort with which the Soviet Union recaptured Crimea. Just don't tell anyone it was a long time ago. Every year in the UK a big feast is celebrated for their victims in the Crimean War 1853-56.) There used to be a big movie about fakes like this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog with Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro. In it, the world is led to believe that there is a war with the small, unknown Albania in order to distract attention from a misdemeanor on the part of the POTUS and to save its election campaign. The United States has also organized revolutions abroad on several occasions. Declassified US government documents show how this was organized by the CIA in Iran as early as the 1950's: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat This was the blueprint for many more such Actions. The so-called color revolutions, like the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004. Also already on the Maidan. And because that didn't help, then again in 2014, as evidenced by telephone recordings by Victoria Nuland from the US State Department (at least the snipers didn't come from the then President of Ukraine). How convenient that Selinsky comes from the media business. He famously became president for playing a Ukrainian president in a TV series. Although his election results outside of Kiev remained low. His party had not won any of its candidates in the last elections just before the war. Incidentally, he had already banned many parties and media before the war. And many more when the war started (see also the torture center in the Mariupul library). In contrast, there has been little coverage in the West of Putin's 2001 Shanghai 5 project. This resulted in a very large trade association, which was completed in 2017. And why Russia is known to be less affected by the economic sanctions of the West than the West itself. The West has also ignored the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a USSR success. The US not only had to pledge never to intervene in Cuba. But they also had to withdraw from Turkey the nuclear missiles that could easily have hit Moscow. Russia successfully prevented this. But the West lied to its people that only they had won. But the plans for war lies were already prepared. For which even US citizens and a popular astronaut should be murdered. See OP Northwoods: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods The Russians have been invaded from abroad several times in history. Over a third of all WW2 dead worldwide were USSR citizens! Putin is an old fox and secret service agent. He knows exactly what he is doing and is well informed. A wise man from the CIA also confirmed this: Andrew Bustamante at Lex Friedman: ruclips.net/video/T3FC7qIAGZk/видео.html&pp=ygUXbGV4IGZyaWRtYW4gYnVzdGFtYW50ZSA%3D (also confirmed by a longtime adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State Collin Powell that: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson t.co/1FOr702hsC ) So be careful what they want you to believe! The famous Karl Krauss once said that you could see bombs exploding over a city just because it was mistakenly reported by the press. He also said that what is being done in newsrooms today will be atoned for by the peoples on the battlefield tomorrow. It must finally be an end to all the wars. We are in the 21st century and we should make sure that every child in the world can go to school and to the doctor. We need more real medical doctors than spindoctors. And much more peace and better understanding. Understanding the West knows exactly who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline. The Pulitzer Prize winner Seymore Hearsh has also demonstrated that the combat gas for the poison gas attack in Syria came there via Turkey. On the same way on which a son of the Turkish president bought the IS oil from IS cheaply. Later, Turkey was allowed to occupy military areas of Syria. And it is looked away when Turkey attacks NATO partner Greece militarily. Whether in Cyprus or in previous years at sea. There are many exciting stories for videos here, right? But please not just CoFR lies. With the structures of the US-American Council on Foreign Relations (CoFR), the public has been manipulated in the states of the West for decades. Incidentally, a very large American thought factory also explained many years ago that the borders in the Middle East would have to be re-drawn. Back then, a lot of things went wrong under the British mandate power. Hillary Clinton had already announced for flight advertising zones there, as it also existed in the Iraq war. Because Wikileaks knew that, they decided to support them because they didn't want to support war. Ukraine was never equal to Russia. Russia is a completely different league. As a nuclear power and far, far more staff. All the best to you and your family. And to the people of Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine is culturally much closer to Russia than to the west. There you see the same films, hear the same music and have a long, long history together. YT-channel Bald & Bankrupt has been to Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia several times: the same everywhere: too little money and job opportunities and all had family members in prison camps in Siberia. PS: the West has to be careful when believing its own lies. A German minister was amazed as he drove to a conference on the Ukraine war at the US base in Rammstein. In a major TV interview, he said that he had assumed that everyone there would scold Germany just because that was constantly being said and written in the German media (CoFR structures there have been particularly strong for decades). the reality was very different. If even the secretary of defense doesn't know the true situation... PPS: As in Gaza, it is in Syria also about routes for pipelines. It's always about money and influence. No matter what is shown to us.
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Premature evacuation and electoral dysfunction are common problems with older autocrats.
i've had those problems since 7th grade
Where the fuck did you come up with this it's hilarious!!! 🤣💀
Good stuff lol 😂
its also a problem for the younger ones....so this joke doesn't really make sense unless you say thats common symptoms of an autocrat in general. And even that doesnt really.....like you're trying to make a situation fit a joke instead of a joke fit the situation.
you're reaching a bit, yea? Maybe reach a bit more for our premature evacuators?
either you can't get it up or you...evacuate...there really isn't any two ways to it.....if you can't get it up then theres no evacuation...
Sour russian grapes coming in droves to mob on a joke 🤣
Russia can't even do a coup right
So it turns out putting an ex con Hot Dog salesman with anger issues a in charge of the biggest merc group in Russia, allowing him to recruit prisoners, freeing murders and rapists making them completely loyal to the Hot Dog salesman, wasn’t the best idea looking back on it.
Who would’ve thought??
Well,isnt that the reason as to why Putin sent the prisoners and mercs to the frontlines of the meat grinder 🤔🤔
Yea who would have seen him becoming the antihero 😅😂😂
I sense a movie coming out about the "War Hot Dog" soon.
Neither is having a president with dementia. What's your point?
One of the most anticlimactic coups of all time.
Damn writer’s strike. 😢
More like a slow motion temper tantrum.
@@666flic it was AN attempt at coup... rather pathetic one but still an attempt.
Don't write it off just yet. There's still plenty of time for more shit to happen.
@@666flic
it was a special government reorganizing operation
You have done a better job covering this matter then any news I have seen
you are watching wrong news then
You really need to expand your feeds of information then.
@@jg3818the truth always comes out. It may take hours or days or weeks or months or years or decades or a century but it always comes out
@@jg3818and Simon is doing a damn good job of getting down to it
He’s spreading propaganda.
Number of people surprised by this guy's death: Precisely zero.
Kudos for getting this out so quickly, chaps. Given how early you plan your videos, this is next level.
Simon and his team must have precognition or some shit 😂
They're adapting to a world in which there are no more slow news days.
Well it's so soon it's probably more speculation than anything helpful
by far the worst researched of any of this channels videos though.
I thought Kudos was a candy and not a good one either.
I guess its supposed to be said for doing something note worthy....posting videos fast isn't note worthy....some people can make a video in 6 hours, and that still isn't note worthy. But yea, lets keep using the dumbed down version of the words we used to use and wonder why people look at us like idiots.
You know, depending on the amount of booze involved, someone could have slept through the whole coup.
And so, that begs the question, where is Gen. Gerasimov?
Hahahaha
Knowing the state of the Russian army, that probably describes the experience of more than a few thousand soldiers
Lol!
So statistically most of the country then 😅😂
So an ex-KGB agent had his rule challenged by a convict-turned-caterer-turned-mercenary leader? This sounds like something out the Russian version of Idiocracy rather than a Tom Clancy novel.
Steven segal
Yes, and the situation was defused by an ex Soviet potato farmer
Prime "Death of Stalin" material
_"Good news first: the world's in great shape. We've got a civil war in Russia, government loyalists against ultranationalists rebels, and 15000 nukes at stake."_
The intro to _Call of Duty: Modern Warfare_ hits a bit different in 2023.
I still say it's a bit too on the money with Dune. Even the character names and plot twists are the same. Too bad poison snoopers aren't around yet.
Incredible how undefended Russia is now with nearly every capable combat units in Ukraine. Those Wagner advanced near 1000km through the country straight toward Moscow in less than 2 days with nothing able to even slow them.
for real. they took more russian land captive in 24 hours than russia could have hoped to get in the entire war in ukraine so far.
When they did that last May Day Parade with no up to date equipment, they told the world they really had nothing left. China and the US can conquer Siberia right now IF both nations wanted to with little or no opposition from the Russian military because EVERYTHING is on the frontline in Ukraine.
always has been
It's clear now that Russia relies almost entirely on its nuclear arsenal to prevent invasion. Against an enemy that doesn't have territory to nuke, it's completely helpless.
@@black10872 China or the US can conquer the entire Russia at just about any time if they wanted to and there was no threat of nuclear war. Russia has achieved nothing with their invasion of Ukraine other than demonstrate to the world that they really are just a loud bully with no muscle behind their words and that Wagner is the only halfway capable fighting force in the country since they don't have to play by any rules. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the reason Putin haven't resorted to using nuclear weapons yet is because they are afraid the world finds out that their nuclear arsenal is also just another lie.
If Wagner can go from the border to just outside Moscow in a day, then a relatively small, but well planned, invasion by NATO would likely be able to capture the Kremlin and cripple or capture most of Russia's essential military infrastructure (runways and supply depots) in a few days.
Super comprehensive and nuanced, as always. Thank you for covering this issue, and so many more like it!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda
This whole situation is so unbelivably absurd. I don't think anything will surprise me at this point.
russia: hold my coffee
It's like USA invaded Mexico to purge it of communists, got several bloody noses and had to withdraw repeatedly. Then a PMC ran by McDonalds got at loggerheads with DoD, seized Austin and drove unopposed at Washington D.C to the sounds of several Apaches being shot down. Biden flew to California and had to be saved by Justin Trudeau negotiating a settlement. I know some people think that USA isn't a serious country, but if someone like that reads this, know that the rabbit hole of absurdity goes so much deeper.
Hunter Biden just got a slap on the wrist for a felony crime...but you know that
As a history buff, I've read a lot more absurd stuff that our ancestors did before that I've more or less been quite decensetized by Wagner's Munity, lmao.
Wagner's Mutiny does not come close to Tsar Peter III's decision to switch swides during the Seven Year's War, imo.
What if nothing happened? MSM trolling the West
"What the f*** was that all about" is definitely the right way to describe this whole shenanigans lol
same as it was in 2014
It’s not a coup. It’s a special political operation 😉
Like Jan. 6th right?
BOTH failed, BOTH should've succeeded.
Stop being a sheep and writing the same thing that 10,000 others wrote before you. If you going to make a smart comment come up with your own words. Nerd
@@josephgriffin2388 Jan 6th? Do you mean that time a bunch white supremacist fascists tried to overturn a democratic election in the US? Yeah, that's totally the same thing buddy.
You sir made me laugh for 15 seconds straight. You sir deserve a (non polonium) cookie!
You made me (not) laugh 😂😂
I just gotta say, very well written episode!
Especially the ending message, very poetic and well done.
Thank you everyone for your contributions in putting this video together. I look forward to the next one.
Simon, your writers are amazing, cranking out scripts as soon as big news stories happen.
They just watch others videos and rip them off.
Maybe they should wait for all the facts to come out instead of posting speculation.
@dearmas9068 it hasn't even been a week and you think everything is known? Lol
@@dearmas9068 We don't even have an admission of what happened to Nordstream and that happened months ago. We don't know the facts yet and anyone who says we do is an idiot.
Him and his writers are dogshit…wish they’d not be paid
You got this out in a hurry! Same thing with the submersible video the other day! Very impressive Simon, writers, and editors.
He's 3 days late 🙄
well since all simon does is read....literally nothing else other than be annoying and go off topic or ruin the topic thats about to be talked about....and while simon is reading filming one video, the other people have already written a video and just need Simon to finish and start the next one.....
there can be 20 videos in que and it takes less than a day to record....so with this type of stuff, there should be multiple videos coming out...but you wanna honk his horn about something not very quick, specially when theres channels with 1 person teams who crank out quality content DAILY, with multiple uploads a day. So yea...honk the horn to a guy who just reads, he needs some more fellatio
2021: second best army in the world
2022: second best army in Ukraine
2023: second best army in Russia
The meme prophecy has been fulfilled
Third best army in Russia, Chechnya had forces there as well
@sindrek8 yeah, but that doesn't look/sound as good. Ruins the joke.
Target ! 👍
2024: second best army in independent Moscow Federation
(dissolution haha)
(i live in this country lol)
I’ve been listening to the casual criminalist lately. When I hear him mention how he makes videos all day I’ve never truly realized how many projects this legend has.
I find myself seeing current events and thinking "WhistleBoy will have a filed day with this... Can't wait to hear it in 2 months." This immediate response is AMAZING! Thank you and Evan and Jen for the quick turn! 🎉
What is a WhistleBoy?
@@mosessupposes2571I think he meant to call him FactBoy
After news feeds I was specifically waiting to hear this channel over the weekend’s events. I appreciate the quick turnaround Simon and the team.
My disappointment was immeasurable, and my day is ruined
I bought 10 bags of popcorn for this. What am I going to do with all these?
@@One.Zero.One101😂😂😂😂😂
Review Brah in the house. Who knew?
My popcorn wasn't even out of the microwave before this 'coup' was over.
Lmao
Keep it handy. This might only have been episode one. You may need that popcorn in the near future.
Thanks for going into this Simon and crew!
I have been looking forward to this so much! I love how your investigations are always put into broader context, instead of how news articles just focus on one headline thing!
that's cause this isn't being done like a news article but rather a moment of HISTORY.......so if you look at this guy and see the news, you don't understand the point then.
The sheer amount of Stoli involved with this boggles the liver.
Oops, responded to the wrong comment.
this channel lies relentlessly
6:11 Hey factboy! Shoigu is not technically part of Russia's military elite. Don't let the uniform and "medals" confuse you, he has never served in the military. He is a civilian appointee in charge of the military, not actual military.
But wouldn’t his current position automatically make him part of the military elite?
@@borismuller86 No his authority and power is derived entirely from his appointment by Putin, not from any respect or loyalty given to him from the military (either the leadership or the rank and file).
Shoigu is AN elite, but the nuance of HOW he an elite is important.
Thanks for letting me know this. It is really a revelation.
@@Krieguerresame as 3/4 of Russian officers. They toed the party line and got cushy appointments.
@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Russian general staff officers, sure. That is how generals in most nations get the position, through political appointment.
However Lt. Smirnoff and Cpt. Molotov aren't getting appointed by political elites, and even the more senior officer ranks like Major and Colonel are usually promoted by their superior officers and are not political appointments.
Putin leaves when his mercenaries approach Moscow.
When the Russian army bears down on Keiv, Zelensky asks for more ammo.
But he was there in Moscow 🤷
@@dkbros1592Putin flew to St.Petersburg
"I need a ride, not ammunition!"-Putin
Speaking of Zelensky, have you ever wondered how the hell that man walks around with those massive brass balls?
Zelensky is a goddamn stud I tell you what. Was asked to leave Kiev when it was “ almost” surrounded and he flat out said no. Man also went to bahkmut when 50%+ of it was held by Russia. Zelensky is a mastif. Putins a chihuahua.
Wagner Group: We’re going to attack you!
Putin: That’s not very nice.
Wagner Group: You’re right. We’ll stop.
That "coup attempt " had all the strength of a fart in a winstorm.
As always Truth is stranger then fiction. The coup started like something out of a Tom Clancy novel and ended in the last way expected.
not really russians expected just that
30% liberals knew
50% conformists knew that nothing works in this country
only the remaining 20% of nazis believed in coup
Seems to me it's a convenient way to post 25 to 50,00 Wagner troops in Belarus. Allowing Russia to attack from the northwest an force Ukraine to divide there forces and thus put an end to their counter offensive attack..
@@davidheckt3398 Or Wagner secures themselves some recently transferred nuclear missiles.
@@davidheckt3398ah yes, which is why they blew up irreplaceable (as long as western sanctions hold) air assets and bridges that will take awhile to replace
@@davidheckt3398Oh please 🙄🤡 They could’ve sent Wagner straight to Belarus, without the drama and making Pootin look weak AF. No way I see the bunker grandpa agreeing to such a thing! That talking point sailed days ago, try and keep up eh? SMH!
Simon, thank goodness. I've been waiting for you to explain this one for me! Thank you for getting this video out so quickly! ❤
A timeline of a complex and confusing set of events done with thoughtful balance and context all done with impressive speed. Job well done by all.
literally nothing complex or confusing it's russian politics 101
1 wagner become to politically popular for 15-20% nazis in population
2 pukin got jealous and stopped privately talking to wagner
3 wagner went public making his situation even worse
4 pukin signed order for all paramilitary to enlist in the army legally and officially
5 that mean that wagner would be literally killed by kgb just like it was done in 2014 with all fake separatists. BY HIS HANDS
6 wagner went all in and staged a fake coup while he still had supporters
7 having good bargaining position wagner negotiated escape plan, being safe from step 5
8 if wagner actually wanted he could plausibly take over moscow, pukin is now publicly weak, russia is a fucking failed state and now european polititians who helped pukin for the last 20 years saw it just like 30% of russians were telling them all this time and 50% knew but were not talking to anyone
Sometimes you just tap on a thumbnail from a channel you've never seen before and it's Simon lol.
I was so bummed out when it just ended
All that popcorn got cold :(
Impractical Jokers cast on headset to Prigozhin: "Now turn around and pretend nothing happened ahaha"
Not sure I'd want an illegal para-military group led by an ex-con getting control of one of the world's largest nuclear stockpiles. I'd be very curious to hear what deal was made and who exactly was involved because I expect its not just Russia that was worried about that march to Moscow.
The reason Belarus volunteered to welcome Wagner is because of the threat to Lukashenko. Immediately following Wagner starting their march, people within Belarus and exiled military Belarusian commanders were calling for a revolution to drive out the Russian army and overthrow Lukashenko. Lukashenko is deeply unpopular and only in power through intimidation and force, in large part with Russia's assistance. The loyalty of his own army is questionable. Having Wagner there who he can pay to enforce his rule will stave off regime collapse.
For Russia, this helps stabilize their sphere of influence for the time being. Cracks are appearing all across their sphere of influence. Kazakhstan's cold diplomatic attitude, flair ups in Nagorno Karabakh, unrest in Georgia, tensions in Transnistria. With Russia's flagging strength, their whole sphere is unstable. A single volatile event in one of their satellites could cause the whole thing to collapse. And the implosion of Lukashenko's regime could do just that. And as we just saw, Russia's military strength is almost entirely tied up in Ukraine. If all these flash points went off at once, they would have no means of reasserting their presence or even securing their borders
This comment sounds like it was written by chatgp
@@tristizzy Thank you! What a great compliment! I'm a real person but I probably annoy people just as much as a chatbot with too much confidence and not enough insight or hard facts.
@@Nuvendil And that in my honest opinion what Ukraine is waiting for. Why lose thousands more citizen you will nee,d when you can just do hit and run tactic and wait till all those "Collosus" colapse under war attrition.
@@tristizzysounds like you're salty you don't have an actual answer to that
I highly doubt this won’t be the last time this happens again
your sentence is so hard to read wtf
Some other oligarchs in the Russian military are getting ideas as we speak.
You mean you doubt this is the last time this happens?
@@borismuller86he struggles sometimes, please don't be too tough on him ❤
He kinda showed that Russia is completely undefended. He just walked in and captured a city of 1.2 million.
Thank you for covering this story. A great job to you and your team (as always)!
Thank you for making this Simon!
Was waiting for a concise explanation of events. I've been monitoring all news outlets on this. Cheers!
Hi Gary,
i like most of Simones Vids and his humor very much. But:
Have he ever made a video of the sinking of the Lusitania (with the subsequent pogroms in the UK?) used to manipulate the US population into WWI? Churchill secretly had weapons and ammunition loaded onto the ocean liner Lusitania. Germany was deliberately informed of this and they sank the ship as hoped. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania It is well known that in every war the truth dies first. And again and again the famous en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda were confirmed. These have proven themselves over 100 years and are scientifically backed. And not only Russia and China can lie, but also the West. Above all the Anglo-Saxons (whom I appreciate and like very much). See all invented war reasons like:
1) the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin invented by the USA to intervene in the Vietnam War, as has long been declassified: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident (that was because it was another CIA -Action didn't work, in which they cowardly murdered 22,000 Vietnamese teachers and intellectuals. Each dead person had an ace of poke card stuffed in their mouths as a warning, pure mafia fanaticism. The USA also worked with the mafia because they were from Italy and knew his way around Sicily. That should help to have fewer casualties in WW2.).
2) the incubator lie that Busch senior used to attack Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony (the alleged witness was a total fake!)
3) Alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so Busch junior could invade Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
4) Yugoslavia or Balkan War: "they drive them into concentration camps", with a photo through a fence so that the people behind could be portrayed as prisoners etc pp
The Anglo-Saxons invented reasons for war again and again. And then always leaving chaos (why is Biden rushed out of Afghanistan just before the Ukraine war? And what happened in Afghanistan then?). Why have the US and NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian military since 2014?
Is it known how Hitler's army was celebrated in Ukraine? The Ukrainians quickly created huge SS units that carried out the worst massacres of Poles and Jews (it is also interesting how the Hitler army took Crimea and what Germany did there. At that time, tobacco was grown there with over 20 thousand forced labourers. Thousands of them Children And the effort with which the Soviet Union recaptured Crimea. Just don't tell anyone it was a long time ago. Every year in the UK a big feast is celebrated for their victims in the Crimean War 1853-56.)
There used to be a big movie about fakes like this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog with Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro. In it, the world is led to believe that there is a war with the small, unknown Albania in order to distract attention from a misdemeanor on the part of the POTUS and to save its election campaign.
The United States has also organized revolutions abroad on several occasions. Declassified US government documents show how this was organized by the CIA in Iran as early as the 1950's: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat This was the blueprint for many more such Actions. The so-called color revolutions, like the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004. Also already on the Maidan. And because that didn't help, then again in 2014, as evidenced by telephone recordings by Victoria Nuland from the US State Department (at least the snipers didn't come from the then President of Ukraine).
How convenient that Selinsky comes from the media business. He famously became president for playing a Ukrainian president in a TV series. Although his election results outside of Kiev remained low. His party had not won any of its candidates in the last elections just before the war. Incidentally, he had already banned many parties and media before the war. And many more when the war started (see also the torture center in the Mariupul library).
In contrast, there has been little coverage in the West of Putin's 2001 Shanghai 5 project. This resulted in a very large trade association, which was completed in 2017. And why Russia is known to be less affected by the economic sanctions of the West than the West itself.
The West has also ignored the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a USSR success. The US not only had to pledge never to intervene in Cuba. But they also had to withdraw from Turkey the nuclear missiles that could easily have hit Moscow. Russia successfully prevented this. But the West lied to its people that only they had won. But the plans for war lies were already prepared. For which even US citizens and a popular astronaut should be murdered. See OP Northwoods: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
The Russians have been invaded from abroad several times in history. Over a third of all WW2 dead worldwide were USSR citizens! Putin is an old fox and secret service agent. He knows exactly what he is doing and is well informed. A wise man from the CIA also confirmed this: Andrew Bustamante at Lex Friedman: ruclips.net/video/T3FC7qIAGZk/видео.html&pp=ygUXbGV4IGZyaWRtYW4gYnVzdGFtYW50ZSA%3D (also confirmed by a longtime adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State Collin Powell that: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson t.co/1FOr702hsC )
So be careful what they want you to believe!
The famous Karl Krauss once said that you could see bombs exploding over a city just because it was mistakenly reported by the press. He also said that what is being done in newsrooms today will be atoned for by the peoples on the battlefield tomorrow.
It must finally be an end to all the wars. We are in the 21st century and we should make sure that every child in the world can go to school and to the doctor. We need more real medical doctors than spindoctors. And much more peace and better understanding. Understanding the West knows exactly who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline. The Pulitzer Prize winner Seymore Hearsh has also demonstrated that the combat gas for the poison gas attack in Syria came there via Turkey. On the same way on which a son of the Turkish president bought the IS oil from IS cheaply. Later, Turkey was allowed to occupy military areas of Syria. And it is looked away when Turkey attacks NATO partner Greece militarily. Whether in Cyprus or in previous years at sea.
There are many exciting stories for videos here, right? But please not just CoFR lies. With the structures of the US-American Council on Foreign Relations (CoFR), the public has been manipulated in the states of the West for decades. Incidentally, a very large American thought factory also explained many years ago that the borders in the Middle East would have to be re-drawn. Back then, a lot of things went wrong under the British mandate power. Hillary Clinton had already announced for flight advertising zones there, as it also existed in the Iraq war. Because Wikileaks knew that, they decided to support them because they didn't want to support war.
Ukraine was never equal to Russia. Russia is a completely different league. As a nuclear power and far, far more staff.
All the best to you and your family.
And to the people of Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine is culturally much closer to Russia than to the west. There you see the same films, hear the same music and have a long, long history together. YT-channel Bald & Bankrupt has been to Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia several times: the same everywhere: too little money and job opportunities and all had family members in prison camps in Siberia.
PS: the West has to be careful when believing its own lies. A German minister was amazed as he drove to a conference on the Ukraine war at the US base in Rammstein. In a major TV interview, he said that he had assumed that everyone there would scold Germany just because that was constantly being said and written in the German media (CoFR structures there have been particularly strong for decades). the reality was very different. If even the secretary of defense doesn't know the true situation...
PPS: As in Gaza, it is in Syria also about routes for pipelines. It's always about money and influence. No matter what is shown to us.
From sous-chef to coup chef.
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What an incredible story. Thanks for the explanation and the great content!
Kudos on the speed you were able to publish this since it only ended a couple days ago!
Love the show!!! Keep up the great work!
The story of this Call of Duty campaign is getting wild.
Fact Boi is the GOAT for getting this out so quickly! I was literally about to start looking up the facts about this story but now I'll just get it from my most trusted source! Keep up the great work Simon and your team!
Beau of the fifth column is brilliant as well.
p.s. 1966 is a very good year 😀
Hi Jeff,
i like most of Simones Vids and his humor very much. But:
Have he ever made a video of the sinking of the Lusitania (with the subsequent pogroms in the UK?) used to manipulate the US population into WWI? Churchill secretly had weapons and ammunition loaded onto the ocean liner Lusitania. Germany was deliberately informed of this and they sank the ship as hoped. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania It is well known that in every war the truth dies first. And again and again the famous en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda were confirmed. These have proven themselves over 100 years and are scientifically backed. And not only Russia and China can lie, but also the West. Above all the Anglo-Saxons (whom I appreciate and like very much). See all invented war reasons like:
1) the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin invented by the USA to intervene in the Vietnam War, as has long been declassified: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident (that was because it was another CIA -Action didn't work, in which they cowardly murdered 22,000 Vietnamese teachers and intellectuals. Each dead person had an ace of poke card stuffed in their mouths as a warning, pure mafia fanaticism. The USA also worked with the mafia because they were from Italy and knew his way around Sicily. That should help to have fewer casualties in WW2.).
2) the incubator lie that Busch senior used to attack Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony (the alleged witness was a total fake!)
3) Alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so Busch junior could invade Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
4) Yugoslavia or Balkan War: "they drive them into concentration camps", with a photo through a fence so that the people behind could be portrayed as prisoners etc pp
The Anglo-Saxons invented reasons for war again and again. And then always leaving chaos (why is Biden rushed out of Afghanistan just before the Ukraine war? And what happened in Afghanistan then?). Why have the US and NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian military since 2014?
Is it known how Hitler's army was celebrated in Ukraine? The Ukrainians quickly created huge SS units that carried out the worst massacres of Poles and Jews (it is also interesting how the Hitler army took Crimea and what Germany did there. At that time, tobacco was grown there with over 20 thousand forced labourers. Thousands of them Children And the effort with which the Soviet Union recaptured Crimea. Just don't tell anyone it was a long time ago. Every year in the UK a big feast is celebrated for their victims in the Crimean War 1853-56.)
There used to be a big movie about fakes like this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog with Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro. In it, the world is led to believe that there is a war with the small, unknown Albania in order to distract attention from a misdemeanor on the part of the POTUS and to save its election campaign.
The United States has also organized revolutions abroad on several occasions. Declassified US government documents show how this was organized by the CIA in Iran as early as the 1950's: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat This was the blueprint for many more such Actions. The so-called color revolutions, like the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004. Also already on the Maidan. And because that didn't help, then again in 2014, as evidenced by telephone recordings by Victoria Nuland from the US State Department (at least the snipers didn't come from the then President of Ukraine).
How convenient that Selinsky comes from the media business. He famously became president for playing a Ukrainian president in a TV series. Although his election results outside of Kiev remained low. His party had not won any of its candidates in the last elections just before the war. Incidentally, he had already banned many parties and media before the war. And many more when the war started (see also the torture center in the Mariupul library).
In contrast, there has been little coverage in the West of Putin's 2001 Shanghai 5 project. This resulted in a very large trade association, which was completed in 2017. And why Russia is known to be less affected by the economic sanctions of the West than the West itself.
The West has also ignored the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a USSR success. The US not only had to pledge never to intervene in Cuba. But they also had to withdraw from Turkey the nuclear missiles that could easily have hit Moscow. Russia successfully prevented this. But the West lied to its people that only they had won. But the plans for war lies were already prepared. For which even US citizens and a popular astronaut should be murdered. See OP Northwoods: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
The Russians have been invaded from abroad several times in history. Over a third of all WW2 dead worldwide were USSR citizens! Putin is an old fox and secret service agent. He knows exactly what he is doing and is well informed. A wise man from the CIA also confirmed this: Andrew Bustamante at Lex Friedman: ruclips.net/video/T3FC7qIAGZk/видео.html&pp=ygUXbGV4IGZyaWRtYW4gYnVzdGFtYW50ZSA%3D (also confirmed by a longtime adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State Collin Powell that: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson t.co/1FOr702hsC )
So be careful what they want you to believe!
The famous Karl Krauss once said that you could see bombs exploding over a city just because it was mistakenly reported by the press. He also said that what is being done in newsrooms today will be atoned for by the peoples on the battlefield tomorrow.
It must finally be an end to all the wars. We are in the 21st century and we should make sure that every child in the world can go to school and to the doctor. We need more real medical doctors than spindoctors. And much more peace and better understanding. Understanding the West knows exactly who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline. The Pulitzer Prize winner Seymore Hearsh has also demonstrated that the combat gas for the poison gas attack in Syria came there via Turkey. On the same way on which a son of the Turkish president bought the IS oil from IS cheaply. Later, Turkey was allowed to occupy military areas of Syria. And it is looked away when Turkey attacks NATO partner Greece militarily. Whether in Cyprus or in previous years at sea.
There are many exciting stories for videos here, right? But please not just CoFR lies. With the structures of the US-American Council on Foreign Relations (CoFR), the public has been manipulated in the states of the West for decades. Incidentally, a very large American thought factory also explained many years ago that the borders in the Middle East would have to be re-drawn. Back then, a lot of things went wrong under the British mandate power. Hillary Clinton had already announced for flight advertising zones there, as it also existed in the Iraq war. Because Wikileaks knew that, they decided to support them because they didn't want to support war.
Ukraine was never equal to Russia. Russia is a completely different league. As a nuclear power and far, far more staff.
All the best to you and your family.
And to the people of Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine is culturally much closer to Russia than to the west. There you see the same films, hear the same music and have a long, long history together. YT-channel Bald & Bankrupt has been to Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia several times: the same everywhere: too little money and job opportunities and all had family members in prison camps in Siberia.
PS: the West has to be careful when believing its own lies. A German minister was amazed as he drove to a conference on the Ukraine war at the US base in Rammstein. In a major TV interview, he said that he had assumed that everyone there would scold Germany just because that was constantly being said and written in the German media (CoFR structures there have been particularly strong for decades). the reality was very different. If even the secretary of defense doesn't know the true situation...
PPS: As in Gaza, it is in Syria also about routes for pipelines. It's always about money and influence. No matter what is shown to us.
Greatly poetic closing statement; and great video in total.
Thank you!
Thanks for this insightful video on such an eventful weekend. It is so hard to figure out what is actually happening and why. I’m just relieved larger bloodshed was avoided at the 11th hour.
Moral of the story....don't start what you can't finish.
I love that youre doing stuff on modern events. Its nice to get you and your teams take on things
Some say coup attempt. Others say friendly fire incident gone bad. I call it what it is: a group of mercs requested a pay too high for Russia to cough up, so Russia tried to get rid of them with other means... and failed. Mercs got pissed off and did what unpaid mercs do - they occupied some places and started looting whatever wasnt nailed to the floor. Once they got their fill - they eased up.
The end.
PS: history has plenty of cases like this: mercs go unpaid, they get angry and cause trouble, state enlisting them decides to put them down. Problem is... Russia wasnt able to, due to financial issues/indecisiveness/incompetence/any or all of the above. The "plenty of cases" ive referred to? Read up about a merc group called "Lisowczycy" ("lisowczyks"). See how they ended up after they started causing trouble in the wrong places...
I agree partly with your analysis. Mercenaries became upset about too low pay and being used as cannon fodder. The Russian military tried to get rid of them and failed but I don't think it was much looting going on. Yeah, they did get payed off with something but I am not sure of what they got.
It certainly is not something that haven't happened before and during the 30 year war it was pretty common since all nations used mercs at the time, some like Sweden in fact had far more mercenaries then actual soldiers. During the viking age, this was also very common and the Romans used a lot of mercenaries too which didn't end great for them.
Having people fighting for money have always had it's issues and when those troops are better then their employers armies, the employer are taking certain risks. I don't think we have heard the last of this yet and there are 2 other pretty large and competent Russian mercenary groups fighting in Ukraine who also could act in a way Russia wouldn't like.
@@loke6664 Im gonna be brief:
-if a state is incapable of dealing with a bunch of unhappy mercs, can it still be called a state?
@@LiezAllLiez in general, yes. ruzzia in its current form is still a failed state, but that's not the reason lol
Or some rich enemy paid the mercs to cause some chaos. But the russians got a sniff of it and now the merc boss is really really in danger. Win win for the rich enemy
You know, that sounds pretty accurate.
The fact that this coup happened on my birthday is what surprises me the most.
Irrelevant
@@whatisahandle_69Couldn't have said it better myself. ☝️
Happy belated birthday! 🥳 🎂 🎉
Most comprehensive and cogent reporting on the topic and I have seen lots. Congratulations & thanks.
How did I not know this channel existed?? RUclips's algorithm failed me until today. Thanks guys! Loved the coverage of this bizarre Russia story.
You know it's serious when even the online Russian sympathizers are missing. I wonder how they are going to explain this as a "victory" or "planned"
Theybare saying it was a 4d chess move.
The cope from them is insane
The online Russian sympathizers? How would you know where they are. You're literally in some igloo and don't know your planet.
It is top secret mission to bring 20k people to attack Kiev and capture it, in short :)
Seems to me it's a convenient way to post 25 to 50,00 Wagner troops in Belarus. Allowing Russia to attack from the northwest an force Ukraine to divide there forces and thus put an end to their counter offensive attack..
Haha good one Slava cocaini
As a Moscoviet, who have been living in the city for all my life, I saw different reaction of my friends and relatives on Saturday. Most of them, as well as me, didn't care at all and watched the current event as a show. But I know a person who was worried too much and sent his family outside the city.
Most of people in Moscow lived their usual life that day.
Yeah, you guys are probably used to it by now.
You saw this in 1991 with the August coup, then in the presidential crisis of 1993, and so on...
I think it would have been interesting to see what happened if they hadn't struck a deal, but I wouldn't have wanted to watch it from Moscow.
@@livethefuture2492 Exactly. I think you are absolutely right. We're just used to it and look at this as a fun, although it's not funny at all. I remember myself at age of 15 in August 1991 and two years later in October 1993. I walked around the city centre and try to be as close as possible to the events in spite of danger. The funniest thing is that some of Yeltsin's supporter in 1991 were on the opposite side of barricade in 1993.
@@livethefuture2492 if someone (like mushustin) kills pukin tomorrow, says well it's time to leave mumbas, crimea and also gift rostov and siberia to ukraina...
literally no on would care and proceed with their lives as if nothing happened
@@HistoryteacherAlex some of the people hiding behind yeltsin in 1993 are now sitting in the kremlin and screaming that yeltsin destroyed usssr oh no usssr was so good bad yeltsin bad
Russias forces aren't found in 2 separate groups, it's split in to DOZENS. Shoygu himself has his own PMC operating on the ground. The regular army itself is split into troops raised separately by province. The airforce also operates separately and often in competition. GAZPROM even has its own merc force. This is one of the reasons Russian forces communicate with eachother in the clear so often: they don't trust EACHOTHER enough to share their crypto keys with one another.
Simon! Your one cool cat that can tell a real life drama with cool and honest words. Thank you.
One of the biggest "if only's" of the 21st Century. The potential was incredible...
This channel is so informative thank you guys for what you do 👍
The irony of russia invading another country, and somehow manages to loose ground without the other army even going into russia. . . this is getting so irony that it generated its own magnetic field, we could wind some copper wire around it and use it to power the entire world.
Where exactly did they lose ground? The territory is still russian and wagner moved to Belarus 100km from kiev. I call it a win-win situation.
Lol
@@RakibHasan-ee2cd It might have been very temporary,, but russia still lost some ground to wagner. Rostov on Don etc.
Once again I have to give props to Simon's writing team on the quality of content here. Truly appreciated is your propensity to keep an ear to the ground and provide us all with timely news in language we can understand.
And added props for great lines like the "We've seen the Russian army go from the second most powerful army in the world, to the second most powerful army in Ukraine, and now the second most powerful army in Russia." That one killed me.
@@mikep3226 My buddy wrote this:) Took him hours of intensive research on top of his previous familiarity with the situation & his degrees in the subject area.
Nice, timely content Simon. Cool.
Such a werid situation. Thank you for summing it all up for us in the best way possible! Love the channel keep up the good work 👍
it's not weird
it's expected and predictable russian politics
@@tsartomato no its still pretty weird
@@jordangreen7191 bruh it's literally an inmate and a low ranking cop trying to screw each other on a bluff
they always did this
@@tsartomato bruh I don't know why you're on my comment trying to prove me wrong just by saying this was weird. It's weird and so are you.
I just came across your channel and this video is honestly fantastic. Looking forward to going through more of your content.
This might seem like a wild idea but by doing this you give the appearance that he's exiled an enemy and his force, that has been among the most effective Russia has had thus far, to a point less than 100 miles from Kyiv while Ukraine likely has the bulk of its forces in the south conducting a counter-offensive. Was Putin in fear of Prigozhin or were both putting on Academy Award performances?
exactly. There's more to this than a simple coup
I was thinking the exact same thing pal
Only Prigozhin has been sent to Belarus. Unless this fat bald man has turned into a super soldier overnight, he's not going to attack Ukraine from Belarus.
There are enough NATO satellites with their eyes locked on this whole region that large Wagner movements are not going to go unnoticed by Western intelligence.
Ukraine has been reinforcing it's northern border ever since the start of the war, so 25k more troops shouldn't matter too much. What I've been thinking is, there were some tactical nukes transferred to Belarus recently, and now there's a "rogue" paramilitary group in Belarus (that has a weak and illegitimate president.) Maybe it is some sort of 4D chess move...
Think, would you destabilize your regime and get huge prestige hit to move 20k infantry to attack Fortified enemy capitol ? One you failed to conquer when you got elements of suprise , air superiority , equipment advantage and 200k soldiers, fully trained , not conscripts? Answer yourself.
This coup could have been an email.
Absolutely excellent Simon, very balanced commentary, kudos to your writers/reaserchers!
Nicely done Simon & team
Just gained a sub. The production and delivery is top tier.
"Fatherland"? When did that change from motherland and "mother Russia"?
In Russian, you can say it both ways, motherland [родина] and fatherland [отечество]
I want to know what the wagner mercs think as they've gone from being well paid (i heard $3 -4000 per month), relatively well supplied and independant to being made into blackmailed conscripts with little chance of surviving very long and having a death sentence that can be arbitarily imposed at any time.
AAAAANNNDD, he is gone.
Brilliant video! 😊
This is the best analysis of this whole thing I have seen on youtube. Well done!
This coup reminded me of the failed coup against Erdogan in Turkey several years ago. Only in that case once the coup failed the perpetrators did indeed 'disappear' so to speak. In this case we have no idea what the backroom deal was regarding Prigozhin's fate. Initially I thought it could have been a false flag operation by Putin himself to enable him to withdraw from Ukraine and end the war while saving face(or well, what's left of it) WW1 style. However at this point with the abrupt ending of the coup this option seems extremely unlikely. Still I wonder how this will affect the war as the Wagner soldiers on the ground can't be happy with this chain of events. The Russian MOD soldiers too for that matter, not that they needed any more reasons to demoralize, they have plenty of those already...
I think Putin traded Belarus to Wagner for Moscow .
Now Prigozhin has a army and his own country .
With a border 50 miles from Kyiv while Kyiv has large numbers of forces committed to a counter-offensive to the south and east. Happenstance? Coincidence? Or enemy action?
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@@ZWickedStepdadDo you think Prigozhin took his 25k troops with him in private jet to Belarus?😂
I love seeing Simon cover current events. I'm at the point where unless I'm hearing it from Simon, I'm just not as interested.
Any other coverage is only surface level🤷🏾♂️😂
Simon is the BENCHMARK 🤘🏾
It’s the accent.
Excellent video, Simon!
I like these up to date posts you've been doing lately Simon.
Does seem like a great way to hide the intent to relocate forces for a second front…
So the Russian army has gone from being the second best army in the world, to being the second best army in Ukraine, and is now apparently the second best army in Russia.
Possibly third best if any Chechen soldiers were in russia at the time.
@@thejason755 i wouldn't put much stock in the Chechens though (they were outside Rostov on Don), from what i understand all they are capable of is raping civilians/goats and posting on tik tok
@@thejason755😂🥴
What happened is a deal between 2 dictators and warlord, positioned about 25,000 Russian, Chechen and Wagner troops an afternoon drive from Kharkiv, with another ~20,000 Wagners meeting up in Belarus with 30,000 prepositioned Russian troops.
They could do that without all these dramas. Who would have stopped if Russia sent all wagner troops to Belarus without staging any coup drama? Think!
@@SS-gw3cb
This is a full spectrum conflict, there is no tactical surprise. Both sides have to move in the information space. Whatever else did, didn't, or might happen, 25,000 troops just moved to the Belgorod AO and no one is giving it a second thought.
@@springbloom5940 Who said 25k troops moved to Belarus? Just Prigozhin moved there. Wagner troops were ordered to return to their station by russian government, that means they will return to ukraine.
Thank you SO much Simon 4 so eloquently explaining a situation that had me fascinated but lost and educating me on such a wide plethora of information in my time spent on ur channels
This was the most unsurprising coup in the history of coups with the most surprising ending of coups in the history of coups. Such a weird situation.
The USA version of Wagner PMC is called Balckwater, and it's run by Betsy DeVos's brother Erick Prince. Just in case you thought the USA would not do the exact same thing
It's hardly the same. American PMCs focus on security and logistics. Russian PMCs are frontline soldiers who specialize in war crimes.
So you’re saying blackwater hasn’t engaged in war crimes in iraq or Afghanistan on the behest of the occupation forces?
If you believe that, you’re even more stupid than the average right winger
@@badluck5647 Not even during the height of the Iraq War did the US rely so heavily on Blackwater as Russia did for Wagner. This would be like if Blackwater seized Virginia Beach and marched onto DC only to stand down after Justin Trudeau mediates a deal.
Black water was never used for anything but protection of civilian contractors and VIPs. They were never used as an extra military branch.
@@TheRealAb216 That's exactly what Putin would say of Wagner, they were only used to secure civilian infrastructure like gold mines, same way Blackwater "secured" oil rigs in Iraq.
These two groups are identical in purpose, mission and action. Don't be deluded into believing that some mercenaries are better just because they're american scum instead of russian scum.
What? 40 minutes ago and already 6.7k views. Damn, Simon, I dare say the Ukraniun War hasn't just profited arms makers so far. Great video on the subject!
its a red hot topic. everyone and their dog wants to know about the Russian Coup
@draconightwalker4964 oh heck, yeah! I was excited to just see another Warographics pop up so soon. When I saw the subject matter, my interest was truly piqued.
It's shit
Awesome coverage! Love your work here
I appreciate these kind of more timely videos on events happening at the moments
It was amazing to see unfold in real time, but then nothing happened. The on the ground news dried up. Then the streams of obvious propaganda started. Thanks for the wrap up, factboi, i know you are literally on the doorstep of the action and your writers for this channel are thorough. I honestly wasn't expecting anything this comprehensive so soon from you. It happened so fast most social media didn't know it happened, and here you are on day 4 giving a blow by blow. (Well the major blows)
Keep us posted!
Seems to me it's a convenient way to post 25 to 50,00 Wagner troops in Belarus. Allowing Russia to attack from the northwest an force Ukraine to divide there forces and thus put an end to their counter offensive attack..
@davidheckt3398 I don't think Wagner has that many troops at its disposal, and I really don't think it was a way to move mass troops. They didn't need a ruse to do that. All I could think watching the broadcast was, I'm looking at a dead man walking. No one says that stuff publicly, not that way. No one chucks a pre organised tantrum on that scale, in Russia. The aftermath will change the world, but I don't see it as more than a frustrated rant and a momentary lapse of control by a man pushed to the edge of endurance,that will echo through the ages.
@@davidheckt3398 Nah, they could easily have done it more secretly for one, and, two, if Belarus was to allow an opening of the second front, then it would have done so a year ago. As the result, now some of newly produced heavy equipment, instead to the front, will go to rosgvardia, the army lost a fair amount of most experienced troops, and everyone has seen that putin can be toppled.
A bit of advice for future coup attempts...
1) make sure your Head Office (full of cash and loot from Africa) is not accessible to your target (or better yet, not in the same city)
2) make sure that anything that could be used as leverage against you (your "Bobrov" passport for instance) is in your possession or at least in a safe place.
3) make sure you have some "novochok" antidote if you're heading to Moscow.
first you have to make sure your leader doesn't own troll fabrica and is not lying and is not just trying to cash in your lives to save his and abandon you
1. U think they have one Office with a Safe full of Cash?
And you think losing some cash would be a bad trade to becoming the most powerful man in russia?
@@levin-jf7qs Good point... but it didn't work, and now he has neither.
"Russia went from being the second most powerful army in the world.
To being the second most powerful army in Ukraine."
Simon, this script is incredibly well written. Kudos to your writer!
Excellent commentary!
Always well organized information.
СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ ❤🇺🇦
If anyone (like me) wants to obsess over this further, the channel Silicone Curtain is a great resource for obsessing further. Lots of interviews with various experts and locals and really detangles a lot of the cultural, political and military issues in Russia and in regards to their invasion of Ukraine.
Thanks Kat! I will do just that.
Meanwhile Ukraine rubbing their hands going: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend..for now."
*coup ends*
"Yep, called it!"
PUCK FUTIN
futler
This is an amazing analysis in such a short time!
Thank you for covering that. It's good to get a better picture of whats going on and more information on this group especially seeing how all the information doesn't seem to make headlines or topics across the sea thanks Evan for writing on that topic
Hi Rachel,
i like most of Simones Vids and his humor very much. But:
Have he ever made a video of the sinking of the Lusitania (with the subsequent pogroms in the UK?) used to manipulate the US population into WWI? Churchill secretly had weapons and ammunition loaded onto the ocean liner Lusitania. Germany was deliberately informed of this and they sank the ship as hoped. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania It is well known that in every war the truth dies first. And again and again the famous en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Basic_Principles_of_War_Propaganda were confirmed. These have proven themselves over 100 years and are scientifically backed. And not only Russia and China can lie, but also the West. Above all the Anglo-Saxons (whom I appreciate and like very much). See all invented war reasons like:
1) the attack in the Gulf of Tonkin invented by the USA to intervene in the Vietnam War, as has long been declassified: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident (that was because it was another CIA -Action didn't work, in which they cowardly murdered 22,000 Vietnamese teachers and intellectuals. Each dead person had an ace of poke card stuffed in their mouths as a warning, pure mafia fanaticism. The USA also worked with the mafia because they were from Italy and knew his way around Sicily. That should help to have fewer casualties in WW2.).
2) the incubator lie that Busch senior used to attack Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony (the alleged witness was a total fake!)
3) Alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so Busch junior could invade Iraq: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
4) Yugoslavia or Balkan War: "they drive them into concentration camps", with a photo through a fence so that the people behind could be portrayed as prisoners etc pp
The Anglo-Saxons invented reasons for war again and again. And then always leaving chaos (why is Biden rushed out of Afghanistan just before the Ukraine war? And what happened in Afghanistan then?). Why have the US and NATO trained and equipped Ukrainian military since 2014?
Is it known how Hitler's army was celebrated in Ukraine? The Ukrainians quickly created huge SS units that carried out the worst massacres of Poles and Jews (it is also interesting how the Hitler army took Crimea and what Germany did there. At that time, tobacco was grown there with over 20 thousand forced labourers. Thousands of them Children And the effort with which the Soviet Union recaptured Crimea. Just don't tell anyone it was a long time ago. Every year in the UK a big feast is celebrated for their victims in the Crimean War 1853-56.)
There used to be a big movie about fakes like this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog with Dustin Hoffman and Robert DeNiro. In it, the world is led to believe that there is a war with the small, unknown Albania in order to distract attention from a misdemeanor on the part of the POTUS and to save its election campaign.
The United States has also organized revolutions abroad on several occasions. Declassified US government documents show how this was organized by the CIA in Iran as early as the 1950's: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat This was the blueprint for many more such Actions. The so-called color revolutions, like the Orange Revolution in Ukraine in 2004. Also already on the Maidan. And because that didn't help, then again in 2014, as evidenced by telephone recordings by Victoria Nuland from the US State Department (at least the snipers didn't come from the then President of Ukraine).
How convenient that Selinsky comes from the media business. He famously became president for playing a Ukrainian president in a TV series. Although his election results outside of Kiev remained low. His party had not won any of its candidates in the last elections just before the war. Incidentally, he had already banned many parties and media before the war. And many more when the war started (see also the torture center in the Mariupul library).
In contrast, there has been little coverage in the West of Putin's 2001 Shanghai 5 project. This resulted in a very large trade association, which was completed in 2017. And why Russia is known to be less affected by the economic sanctions of the West than the West itself.
The West has also ignored the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis was a USSR success. The US not only had to pledge never to intervene in Cuba. But they also had to withdraw from Turkey the nuclear missiles that could easily have hit Moscow. Russia successfully prevented this. But the West lied to its people that only they had won. But the plans for war lies were already prepared. For which even US citizens and a popular astronaut should be murdered. See OP Northwoods: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
The Russians have been invaded from abroad several times in history. Over a third of all WW2 dead worldwide were USSR citizens! Putin is an old fox and secret service agent. He knows exactly what he is doing and is well informed. A wise man from the CIA also confirmed this: Andrew Bustamante at Lex Friedman: ruclips.net/video/T3FC7qIAGZk/видео.html&pp=ygUXbGV4IGZyaWRtYW4gYnVzdGFtYW50ZSA%3D (also confirmed by a longtime adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State Collin Powell that: Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson t.co/1FOr702hsC )
So be careful what they want you to believe!
The famous Karl Krauss once said that you could see bombs exploding over a city just because it was mistakenly reported by the press. He also said that what is being done in newsrooms today will be atoned for by the peoples on the battlefield tomorrow.
It must finally be an end to all the wars. We are in the 21st century and we should make sure that every child in the world can go to school and to the doctor. We need more real medical doctors than spindoctors. And much more peace and better understanding. Understanding the West knows exactly who blew up the Nord Stream Pipeline. The Pulitzer Prize winner Seymore Hearsh has also demonstrated that the combat gas for the poison gas attack in Syria came there via Turkey. On the same way on which a son of the Turkish president bought the IS oil from IS cheaply. Later, Turkey was allowed to occupy military areas of Syria. And it is looked away when Turkey attacks NATO partner Greece militarily. Whether in Cyprus or in previous years at sea.
There are many exciting stories for videos here, right? But please not just CoFR lies. With the structures of the US-American Council on Foreign Relations (CoFR), the public has been manipulated in the states of the West for decades. Incidentally, a very large American thought factory also explained many years ago that the borders in the Middle East would have to be re-drawn. Back then, a lot of things went wrong under the British mandate power. Hillary Clinton had already announced for flight advertising zones there, as it also existed in the Iraq war. Because Wikileaks knew that, they decided to support them because they didn't want to support war.
Ukraine was never equal to Russia. Russia is a completely different league. As a nuclear power and far, far more staff.
All the best to you and your family.
And to the people of Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine is culturally much closer to Russia than to the west. There you see the same films, hear the same music and have a long, long history together. YT-channel Bald & Bankrupt has been to Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Russia several times: the same everywhere: too little money and job opportunities and all had family members in prison camps in Siberia.
PS: the West has to be careful when believing its own lies. A German minister was amazed as he drove to a conference on the Ukraine war at the US base in Rammstein. In a major TV interview, he said that he had assumed that everyone there would scold Germany just because that was constantly being said and written in the German media (CoFR structures there have been particularly strong for decades). the reality was very different. If even the secretary of defense doesn't know the true situation...
PPS: As in Gaza, it is in Syria also about routes for pipelines. It's always about money and influence. No matter what is shown to us.
It’s fucking hilarious that American intelligence agencies have a better idea of what’s going on in Russia than Putin does😅🎉