Last Act Of Ballet: Putin Suddenly Gets 'Paralysed'
- VITALY PORTNIKOV
- 4.08.2023, 9:31
The situation in Belarus has reached a very interesting point.
Is Putin "paralysed" after the attempted putsch and how will the situation with the Wagner soldiers in Belarus develop?
Vitaly Portnikov, a well-known Ukrainian publicist, answered these and other questions in an interview to the Studio X-97 programme of Charter97.org. The presenter is Yauhen Klimakin.
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- The Wagner units are on the territory of Belarus. Some media even cite a figure of 10 thousand. What could be the consequences of this?
- I come to the conclusion that the whole story with Wagner was prepared as a large-scale provocation so that Russia and Belarus could avoid responsibility in case of some provocations on the territory of NATO and the EU. It becomes obvious that this whole so-called mutiny was performed with clock-work precision.
The first part of this ballet is the Russian Defence Ministry's demand, supported by Putin, concerning the signing of contracts with the Russian Defence Ministry by the Wagner troops.
The second part of the ballet is that the Wagner units refuse to sign the contracts and launch a "march of justice" to Moscow. The third part - they stop their march after an "agreement" with Lukashenka, and the part of them that agrees to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defence remains in Russia, while the larger part that has not agreed goes to Belarus after a meeting with Putin.
Now these are the people who have not officially signed contracts with the Russian military, despite the fact that both Putin, Shoigu, and everyone else insisted on it.
Neither Putin himself nor Lukashenka, who welcomed them to Belarus "solely to stabilise the political situation in Russia" and "to prevent a battle at Moscow's walls", is any longer responsible for their actions.
If after that the fourth part of the ballet happens, for example, these 10 thousand people end up on the territory of Poland in Rzeszów or Suwalki, the Russian Federation will not be in any way responsible for the killing of civilians, Polish border guards or members of the Polish army by them. Putin and Lukashenka will remind us that they had nothing to do with it. That they were talking about the fact that these are criminals who threaten the Russian nuclear component, as Dmitry Medvedev said. They will wonder dramatically: how is it that when these bandits were attacking Moscow, you rejoiced, but why are you sad now when they're attacking Warsaw? We have warned you about how dangerous these people are, and you didn't believe us. Let's restore order together.
I believe that this is most likely a preparation for a new stage of confrontation with the West. I don't know whether Putin (I'm not talking about Lukashenka here, because he's not a player at all) will decide to do it. But this is a thorough preparation of a special operation. It is necessary to understand that everything we have seen is a performance. With all the talk about Putin's "indecisiveness". Now it's being thrown into the Western press that "he's paralysed".
Every such news story absolves Putin of responsibility for the Wagner units' actions. That he was "so afraid of them" that "he was paralysed", "made no decisions" and "was sitting there in his residence in Zavidovo". A lot of Russian liberal experts are telling all these tales, you know. Which worries me too, frankly speaking.
If they go to Poland, what does Putin, who is "afraid" of them, have to do with it? How could he send them to Poland if they "don't listen to him", if he "stops in tracks at the mere sight of them". He didn't give them orders, it was "Prigozhin himself". We have come to an interesting thing. What will the leadership of Poland, NATO, and the USA do then?