Mozgovoi Was Murdered But Prigozhin Had His Money Returned to Him

Compare and contrast

Remember when I shared longstanding rumors and conspiracy theories from within the patriot community in Russia that the Donbass militia commanders were being killed off by Moscow, not Kiev? Well, Strelkov has decided to share some new information on this dark conspiracy during one of his broadcasts:

Strelkov, in his recent live broadcast, said that the first deputy head of the GRU of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Alekseev, most likely, was directly involved in the bestial murder of Alexei Borisovich Mozgovoy. Shortly before his death, Mozgovoy himself told Strelkov that Alekseev had directly threatened him with the same fate as Major Kostenko, who was ambushed by unknown persons in Transnistria. The threat, in fact, was carried out.

Here they are, Putin's generals. Behind the lines they kill their own, and they work strangers. When their owners conclude the Minsk agreements, make “difficult decisions”, strategic regroupings and grain deals - they take it under the hood and lick their owner's boot.

You might remember what I wrote about Mozgovoi last summer perhaps.

He was probably the most charismatic of the Donbass commanders who basically declared war on the oligarchy. His political philosophy closely matched my own, which I expounded in my book, in that he correctly identified Oligarchy as a general political concept and structure as being the root of the problems plaguing the Slavlands. Authoritarianism stands in opposition to Oligarchy. This is a perennial concept that most Westerners refuse to understand unfortunately.

Slavsquat wrote about Mozgovoi’s heroic example of resistance to the oligarchs as well:

By killing each other we became more free?

All the other Donbass heroes were killed off as well. I assumed all this time that it was the private goon squads of oligarchs like Kurchenko who did the dirty deed. After all, Zacharchenko, the popular head of the DNR, was almost certainly killed of by Kurchenko, a once-powerful Kremlin oligarch, later:

But it seems that Russian spooks are still being used as goon squads for rent by the oligarchy. I thought that they had restored at least some semblance of their dignity and had stopped being rent boys for the oligarchs at least.

Seems I was wrong.

As you can see for yourselves, Moscow has no compunctions about being “moral”. No, when the oligarchy is threatened, the oligarchy strikes back and defends its own. This whole SMO was basically a rescue mission for Medvedchuk, wasn’t it? And then a fellow oligarch ended up trading away all the Nazis of Mariuple for one of the good old boys, didn’t they?

And that brings us to Prigozhin.

Prigozhin, a corrupt oligarch living off the teat of the Kremlin for many years, who almost ended up toppling this same government, just had his confiscated money and his gun returned to him. He’s out there now complaining that the spooks still need to return the rest of his stuff and that there will be Hell to pay if they don’t.

It’s not all smooth sailing for Prigozhin, to be fair. His companies lost their lucrative government contracts and the media is still going to town on him. They published photos from his raided home to show the peasants that he isn’t one of them, really:

Masonic-themed tiles are all the rage among the oligarchs

Compare and contrast how these two commanders were treated by Moscow though.

Also, I hate to belabor the obvious here, but then, what seems so obvious to me clearly isn’t obvious to the vast majority of cognitive peasants who listen to my charlatan analyst-competitors … so, let me spell out what I said would go down to everyone again. Let me specify beforehand: I’m not using sarcasm here. I’m not being cute. I’m literally trying to be as clear and concise as possible. Ready? OK.

First, I predicted the following before the dust around the mutiny had even settled:

• Wagner won’t be punished by being disbanded because the Kremlin is weak and unpopular and a significant faction of oligarchs are turning against the St. Petersburg Gang

• Prigozhin won’t be punished either and will transition into politics, probably as a Zhirinovsky-type replacement

• Shoigu and the gang of crooks around him won’t be fired because the Kremlin doesn’t ever fire its own

Meanwhile, Surovikin is still missing and his family has disappeared as well. When I first spoke about Surovikin’s arrest/disappearance, I was immediately accused of being CIA, as usual. Now that he is still missing though, do I get an apology? Save your breath for Surovikin I guess, he could use your prayers. He might even eventually return, but you can sure as hell be sure that they’re working on him right now.

Again, compare and contrast: the treatment of Prigozhin and Surovikin.

The difference couldn’t be more stark.

It’s like the reverse of the plot of Highlander. In that movie/series, the main superhuman characters battling it out for the future of humanity kill each other to grow in power and take one step closer to becoming the undisputed last man standing. In Russia though, it’s only Highlander rules for the peons. The oligarchs get to play with second lives and redos and are generally allowed to run wild.

Not the oligarchs though, oh no. To paraphrase Mozgovoi: they always look out for each other because at the end of the day it’s them against us, but they need to use us in their internal spats to tip the balance. I would only add that they like to use moralizing and ideologies which are phantom, spook concepts that aren’t even real, to trick us into caring about what amounts to just money squabbles. Because in the end they all serve the same masters and almost all of them belong to the same clan. And no, they’re not from the highlands of Scotland.

Prigozhin, who has assets in London as well, tells the peasants that he is marching for social justice.

Putin, a Zionist, tells the peasants that he is fighting for Antifa principles in Ukraine.

Zelensky, a money-laundering shyster, tells the peasants that he is fighting for EU values.

Biden, well, he just shits his pants and stumbles off stage, but if he could mumble out a coherent thought, he’d probably say something about waging Jihad for Global BLM Analism or something like that.

Anyways.

It is clear to me that other officers will be purged as well going forward for not defending Shoigu and Moscow and letting Wagner march unopposed. You have to understand that the Kremlin hates the military and has been at war with them for 3 decades and the military feels the same way about them. This is a chance for Shoigu to shore up his position and prevent an actual military coup against him. After the Kremlin surrenders to Kiev, the problem will be the Russian resistance to the betrayal, which needs to be neutralized while there still is time.

This is the top priority for the Kremlin leadership, not the SMO, which they are losing badly.

Look: no actual military men have been allowed anywhere near politics or the leadership of the MoD by first the Bolshevik elite, who made sure that General Zhukov was kept suppressed, and then this policy continued through to the collapse of the USSR. Then under Yeltsin and then Putin, Russia launched an SMO in Chechnya and fought it in the exact same treacherous way. At the time, the government also pretended that it wasn’t a war, but a kind of constitutional-upholding operation - a crash-course in aggressive applied Republican ethics or something like that. Real stories from the war were suppressed, of course, but clumsily. Afterwards, accounts of what really happened in Chechnya were actively suppressed, and even popular movies like War were censored for “igniting ethnic tensions” i.e., for portraying a Russian hero fighting against inhuman Chechens and being punished by the FSB for his heroism.

The military was then systematically dismantled once Chechnya had been wrapped up by the St. Petersburg Gang so that it could never rise up to become a threat to the oligarchs who ruled Russia with the West’s support. Shoigu used to go on TV back in the day to boast that the old Soviet Army could have taken Paris if it wanted to. Now, under his leadership, it can’t even take Donbass.

As for Wagner, well, they’re doing fine. Better than I thought! For one, they won’t be put under the control of Shoigu, which was a fate that they clearly considered to be worse than the odds of being tried with treason by Shoigu. Secondly, they won’t be tried with treason, obviously, although the Russian state media has gotten to work destroying their reputations. Thirdly, they will always have the option of working for Lukashenko and making a second attempt on Moscow in the future should they want to. In the meantime, Moscow is trying to shore up support and prepare a new army.

Time is on their side, still.

Now, Luka has officially signed a contract with Wagner. That means that all their immediate problems are solved for now. While others were bleating about their disbandment, them being tried for treason, fading into non-existence or whatever, I calmly remarked that there wasn’t any chance of such a powerful mercenary outfit going for long without sponsors.

Wagner will play a hand in deciding who will be the next president of Russia with or without Prigozhin at their head.

You could say that Prigozhin got off scot-free.

Also, now that the work for Belarus, they will no longer be used in the SMO, effectively depriving Russia of the only effective fighting force that they had outside of the elite divisions, many of whom are already badly mangled thanks to Shoigu.

So, billions of roubles later and thousands of lives later, the Kremlin has lost one of its most powerful military assets, lost the Z-media network that they paid Prigozhin top dollar to set up and run for them, were made to look like weaklings and fools in front of Russia and the whole world, and are now busy disappearing their own generals just to keep Shoigu and his cronies in power.

That being said, I’m genuinely happy to hear that the Russian people rejected Prigozhin and did not fall for another huckster bariga oligarch promising them social justice and bloodshed. I’m happy that the military wisely stood aside and let the crooks fight it out amongst themselves, saving lives in the process. I also hope that true justice will prevail and the goon squads who run around murdering Russian patriots like Mozgovoi and the oligarchs who own them will be brought to justice by a military strongman in the future.

Liberal Democracy just means rule by Oligarchy. Let there be one Autocrat instead!

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