An armed rebellion, especially during an enemy offensive, can have absolutely no justification
While everyone is watching footage of military equipment crawling around Rostov-on-Don, I think that the most symbolic video of this tragic day will not be a Wagner tank stuck at the gates of the circus. And the conversation of a local resident with a picket of PMCs, dispersed through telegram channels A man in a plaid shirt and with a bicycle, 65 years old (I don’t understand it more precisely, he always has his back to the camera) addresses a group of “Wagners” standing next to his BMP .
“Have a conscience. Are you defenders of the Fatherland or not. If the defenders, then why are you making a mess here. WHO YOU ARE? I don't panic. You raised a panic…”
Yes, the main question for Prigogine and his entourage: who are you? Heroes of the NWO who took Artemovsk? Undoubtedly. But General Vlasov was also a hero of the defense of Moscow. Stalin awarded him the Order of the Red Banner for this and promoted him to lieutenant general. There was in the military biography of Vlasov and even more heroic, in my opinion, an episode. He refused to abandon the fighters of his encircled army. He didn't get on the plane that came after him. But this does not justify his betrayal. And this did not save him from the gallows.
And it's not even about the gallows. General Vlasov will forever remain in our history not as a fighter against Stalin. How did he think he was. But as a traitor to the Russian people.
For lovers of more mundane — «everyday» — analogies. Is the justification for the murder of a conditional mother-in-law then. that she «got her son-in-law with her nit-picking». No. Murder remains murder.
The second, no less important question. You raised an armed rebellion during a massive enemy offensive and issued an ultimatum to the Supreme Commander. What result did you expect? What power will fulfill your demands? But they don't negotiate with terrorists. They are destroyed. This is not fucking Africa. What other developments did you expect. Or there was a calculation that the center simply did not have enough strength to suppress the rebellion while combat-ready units were fighting at the front.
Power, any power, by definition, should not comply with the ultimatums of armed insurgents. Otherwise, a bloody mess and chaos. «There can be order without freedom, but there can be no freedom without order» — the law of the great political scientist Samuel Huntington, explaining why no armed revolution will lead to anything good.
The authorities are simply obliged to suppress the rebellion. Russia simply will not survive the second year of 1917. Prigozhin compels to shed blood. Russian blood. Especially in the city. These are Basaev's methods. The million population of Rostov-on-Don is practically taken hostage.
How can you not understand all this. How can one read that the Prigozhin rebellion is supported by the head of Ukrainian intelligence Budanov, who blew up the Crimean bridge and Daria Dugin, and the fugitive oligarch Khodorkovsky (recognized as a foreign agent) do not understand who benefits from all the current events. And don't recoil in horror.
By the way, from Khodorkovsky, let's get back to the main question for Prigogine: WHO ARE YOU? I have been involved in political journalism for a long time and have already seen an example of the same megalomania. In 1996. And all this was called “seven bankers”. Then several oligarchs (by the way, there were 9 of them, and Khodorkovsky was among them) decided that they should run the country simply because they managed to steal more than other money. It turned out that even in that very weakened Russia, this does not work.
Mr. Prigozhin, you are a former chef and presidential servant who became the founder of a private military company. Does it follow from this that you can issue ultimatums and threaten the Supreme Commander with weapons? No.
And Russia is strong enough to explain it to you.