Hey guys, we have some really huge breaking news with regards to that Russian coup attempt. So let me just jump right in here. It looks like the coup attempt, at least this phase of it, may be over. Let me go ahead and put this up on the screen. This is the statement from Progosion. He says they were going to dismantle PMC. Wagner. We came out on June twenty three to the March of Justice. In a day, we walked to nearly two hundred kilometers away from Moscow.
In this time, we did not spill a single drop of blood of our fighters. Now the moment has come when blood may spill. That's why understanding the responsibility for spilling Russian blood on one of the sides. We are turning back our convoys and going back to field camps according to the plan. So Progosion, the head of course of the Wagner group that launched this now attempted coup attempt, saying that they are going back to the base camps,
that they are effectively retreating. And the backstory here is that apparently there was some deal making with Lukashenko, who is the president of Belarus. Let's put this piece up on the screen. This is everything we know. And by the way, guys, we haven't heard a word as of the recording of this video from the Krumlin or from Putin,
so we don't know their side of the story. But here is what Max said on who is the Moscow buearer chief at the Financial Times is tweeting He says Belarus says they have convinced Progosion to stand down his armed up rising. Lukashenko spent quote the entire day negotiating with Progosion, after agreeing on joint actions with Putin and additionally clarifying the situation through his own channels. No immediate
confirmation from the Krumlin. We did get confirmation though from Progosion, he again saying this was like part of the plan here, and we have some early indications that perhaps part of the deal was some of the military leadership, the Russian military leadership that Progosion had been beefing with for a while now, that perhaps part of the deal was that they are going to be removed and others put in place,
but that we don't have any confirmation on. And with all of this, you have to understand take it with a grain AsSalt wait for things to play out, because these are incredibly chaotic and fast moving developments. But just a stunning twenty four hours here when you have the Wagner group, you know, group of mercenaries launching this attempted uprising, armed rebellion, coup, attempts, civil war, whatever you want to call it, marching fairly unimpeded within two hundred kilometers of Moscow.
The mayor of Moscow was issuing state of emergency, they were trying to muster some sort of defense. There were reports, these again unconfirmed, that Putin and some of the top Kremlin officials had been flown out of Moscow to Saint Petersburg. Again that's unconfirmed, but you know, absolutely humiliating for Putin and now rather humiliating for Progosion as well. He had
become a real social media superstar during the war. And part of how this all came to pass is because the Russian military, like the actual direct Russian military strength, was so weak, and they had struggled so much in the Ukraine War that they had basically had to rely on this group of mercenaries in order to make any sort of progress. So Wagner really instrumental. For example, in the Battle of Bakmut, that is where a lot of the tensions really escalated between him and Choigo and some
of the other military leadership. They claimed that they were their mercenaries were being denied ammunition and being denied some of the weapons that they needed. He's leveled charges of incompetence against the top military brass within Russia. And then with regard to this Kotem Sager covered some of this in the video that he did previously. In the beginning phases here he said that the Ukraine War was a mistake, that it was built on lies, and that was part
of the motivation for launching this armed rebellion. So, you know, impossible to stay what happens next. Perhaps the immediate danger to Putin's regime has passed, but this is a humiliating and really existential crisis for him. It will have huge implications in terms of their ability to prosecute the war in Ukraine at a time when Ukraine is attempting to mount a serious counter offensive and the real questions about
how that would all unfold. Wagner has been, as I said, one of the most effective parts of their fighting forces. So just losing that ability in and of itself is you know, incredibly damaging potentially to the Russian war effort. How does this lead Putin to feel like, all right, I'm under pressure here. I got to suit for peace.
Let me get to the negotiating table. Possible? I think probably unlikely, you know, more likely that someone like him, this sort of more strong man authoritarian leader, is likely to double down when faced with this set of circumstances. But he has shown a lot of weakness in his regime based on how this all unfolded, even with Progosi now appearing to get cold feet and turning back. So
that's effectively all we can say. You know, I guess the last piece that I'll add here is, uh, there was a lot of discourse online about like who to cheer for in this whole situation, and you know, the idea of a nuclear armed superpower being potentially headed by the you know, brutal leader of this mercenary group is
a terrifying situation. And even with the potential end of this coup attempt, it still remains a very volatile and very dangerous situation when you are dealing with a nuclear armed superpower and uh, you know, authoritarian leader with his back against the wall. So that's everything we know at this point. We will certainly keep you updated with everything as it unfolds. This will certainly have tremendous implications within Rush.
Saga and I were talking and he was mentioning, you know, it's very likely there's going to be a huge crackdown on descent domestically, as there already has been. But in response to this kind of weakness, the response is not going to be like, let's have tolerance and let's have a free marketplace of ideas. So you can certainly see that coming for the Russian domestic population, and then no way to know what it means in terms of the
Ukrainian War, but we'll be watching it closely. We've got Yegor, our friend who lives in Moscow, to give us a live report from that city on Monday and tell us what this has all been like and what he's hearing and what the sentiment is on the ground. So look forward to that and we will see you all soon.