"March Of Justice" Mutiny Leader Has A WILD Russian Past

For less than 24 hours, there was a challenge to Russia's leadership by a private army who has played a key role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Over the weekend, the private mercenary group known as the Wagner Group launched an apparent insurrection, although the head of the Wagner Group, the now former head of the Wagner Group claims that is not the case. Now, while the alleged insurrection

attempt failed, it is worth getting into the details on how it all unfolded. So let's start with this video, which gives us a little peek into how it unfolded and I'll fill in the blanks for you. On a rest warrant for pre-gusion, for mutiny, denying his claims. And a heavy military presence appeared in Moscow. By early Saturday morning, Wagner forces were seen in Rustoff, 600 miles

south. It's the main logistical hub for Russian forces operating in Ukraine. Pre-gusion said that his forces had taken the city. Putin or this mercenary madman, and that's the state of Russia as we speak, but more facts first. So it's worth understanding who pre-gusion is. It's also important to understand that he was made to be who he is today thanks to Vladimir Putin's help. But he is

the leader of the Wagner Group. His name is Yignovy pre-gusion. And he was a former ally to Russia. He's no longer an ally considering the attack that took place. Now, he claims that this was not an attempt at a coup. This was really about protesting. The issues that he and his mercenary group has had with the Russian military and the leaders within the Russian military. Now,

he is known as Putin-Chef. He had been known as Putin-Chef because he got his start focusing more on the catering business and restaurants. He would later use those businesses to supply Russia's military with meals while laundering money. And he played a central role in the war against Ukraine first by deploying his mercenaries on the front lines. And later by recruiting heavily from prisons to bolster Moscow's

depleted forces. Wagner led the onslaught in Bakmut, which culminated in Putin declaring the city under Russian control his first significant territorial gain since last summer. Now, why did this rebellion happen? Well, apparently there have been internal tensions between pre-gusion and the Russian military leaders. And they've been simmering for months. Apparently, he feels that they have kind of stood in the way of the weapons and ammunition

he needs. They have been stonewalling him and his mercenary group. He accused the Russian generals of stonewalling his ammunition requests. And as a result, blame them for his fighters dying in heaps in Ukraine. The dispute reached a boiling point. Last Friday, when pre-gusion accused Russian forces of conducting a strike on his fighters at an encampment in Ukraine. So as a result, he decided to launch this

attack. He called for Russians to join Wagner against Shoku. And he's one of the leaders in the Russian military. And the other individual he's been having issues with is Jarasmov. He also accused the pair of lying about the war in Ukraine and undercounting casualties. He says, quote, this is not a military coup but a march of justice. End quote. Now, with that said, here's how Vladimir

Putin responded to the attack and how it unfolded later after the attack started. Let's watch. In a televised address, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded and called for his military to stop the revolt. That's it. The internal imbeuction. Hisida helicopter's open fire on them. A warehouse and fuel tanks were destroyed. And Wagner forces reportedly shot down six Russian helicopters and a plane. Wagner forces continued to move

north, but by the time they were within 125 miles of Moscow, a deal was reached. Now the deal was brokered by the Belarus and president and you should be a little skeptical of it. At least I feel skeptical of the terms of this deal. So Alexander Lukashenko allegedly offered a place to stay in Belarus, right? So he will be an exile, he will remain in Belarus

and he will not face any prosecution or criminal charges based on this deal. However, that deal is already incredibly shaky, right? So for instance, Russian state media said that pregozion was still liable for prosecution and the warlords were about to be unclear. In an audio statement, pregozion gave no indication that Wagner was being wound up defending his troops as a crack force and saying that Lukashenko

was open to allowing them to stay operational in Belarus. So I'm going to get into more details about the disputes he has had with the Russian military in just a moment, but I wanted to give you a chance to jump in. Yep, so look, this guy's a complicated guy and I think it's really interesting, the especially dynamic between him and Putin. I think what happens next

is very interesting. So first of all, everybody's universally saying that this shows Putin as weak. In a sense for sure, of course, he's got an internal rebellion that shows some degree of lack of cohesion, weakness, wrong strategy, etc. The points of pregozions making about the defense minister and the other minister involved seem like they're accurate and that they have really bungled a war. You should know

this Wagner group was, unfortunately, the most effective fighting force for the Russians inside Ukraine. But on the other hand, he's now gone. Who else is going to challenge Putin? So I think ironically it might have made him stronger. I'm not sure that there's a lot of internal enemies left anymore. I don't necessarily know what to do. I necessarily agree with that. So whether or not this

makes Putin weaker or stronger, I think really depends on whether these mercenaries are going to be absorbed within the Russian military. Because the Russian military is in fact depleted, which is why they relied heavily on these mercenaries to carry out this war, at least help them carry out major missions and operations within this war. So without this group, I'm really curious to see what Putin is

going to do. To kind of make up for the fact that they no longer are able to help with this terrible war that they've conducted in Ukraine. Right. So there's two things about that. Let me give you some details. So the groups, I don't know if it's still this size, but at its height, there's about 50,000 soldiers. That's a lot of folks, right? But within the

context of the Russian army, it's not the end all be all, but they are the best fighting force that they have, apparently according to all the experts. So now this particular conflict started when the defense minister tried to gain control of the Wagner roof and everything else. Yes. By getting them to sign loyalty plates to the Russian military. Yes, and that defense minister Sergei Shoggu, who,

you know, Pregozion has had issues with. He's accused him of stonewalling and he's accusing Shoggu. And it's a correct accusation of trying to absorb these mercenaries within Russia's army. So in the beginning, it looked like, the Russians are saying, okay, those forces can come now after the conflict, right? They could come into the Russia military now and Pregozion by himself is going to go to Belorussia.

And he was like, Belorussia. He's like, no, they're coming with me. As you saw in that last quote, then Anna read you guys. So we don't know how many of them have gone exactly. But if the entire 50,000 went to Belorussia, well, that's probably stronger than their entire military, that country's military, right? So that's a big giant question mark hanging out there. And what are they

going to do next? Because remember, they don't just operate in Russia. They- It does ends of other countries. They nearly took over the Central African Republic. They run the diamond mines there and that Pregozion is now a billionaire. Okay, so when I say he's complicated, complicated in a lot of directions, you gotta, like he's a, you know, a lot of ways a mad man. No, he's

not just a mad man. He is an awful, evil individual. The mercenaries within this group, they're recruited from prisons and they're rapists, they're murderers. The way that they rape and murder, while they're in war is pretty clear and well documented. So look, I just want to be clear and get this out off my chest right now. There is no conversation about like, who's the good guy,

who's the bad guy? Both Putin and Pregozion are absolute garbage. Yeah, so I completely concur with that. But let's continue the conversation. So number one on Pregozion, the one thing I'll give him is the dudes a billionaire and he's still on the front lines. Okay, it's something. The front lines of what? Okay, of the fighting. Okay, he's on the battlefield as far as you can tell.

Yeah, whereas by the way, when he started advancing to Moscow, apparently Putin ran to St. Petersburg. So it is what it is. Okay, now to the bad side. Guys, look, it shows you how depleted and awful the Russian military is, that they have to rely on mercenaries to recruit from Russian prisons. And you know how you get Russian prisoners out or any prisoners out in any

country and get them to volunteer for potential death. You promise them terrible things in return. And that's what Anna's referring to. And not just in Ukraine, but in Africa and other places they have operated. Rape is a normal form, apparently, of their warfare. And so this is some old school horrific mercenary crap, right? And so they are not good guys in any way, shape, or form.

That's why throughout the weekend I was thinking, as everyone's like kind of weirdly excited, right? Like, oh, there's an internal battle in Russia. I'm like, wait, are you sure that it would be better for these crazy mercenaries to take over Russia and have control of the nukes? No, right? But here's the thing, I'm not sure. So when this story first broke, and everyone was referring to

it as a coup attempt, I mean, I was skeptical of that narrative because how exactly would they succeed in that? You can't look at themselves. 100%, and that was going to be my next point, which is, look, as he's advancing to Moscow, I thought, I don't think this guy's thought of through. So for all that he's apparently effective at fighting and apparently good at corruption and

whatever other skills he might have, he's not the world's greatest strategist. I'm like, if you're going to make a move on Putin, you have to be right next to Putin. You can't be like days away, like 500 miles down the road, you're never going to make it. The Russian military is not that depleted, right? So you're never going to make it to Moscow. So what the

hell were you thinking? So I don't know, I don't know what he thought. I don't know if he got worked up and just made an error in calculation. I don't know what happens to them next, but as he was advancing towards Moscow, I was like, I guess it's good news that the Russians in the detention, but I do not want this guy to win as much

as I despise Vladimir Putin. So the only thing that I can see worth getting for lack of a better word excited about is without the help of this mercenary group, and with the depleted Russian military, there is some chance, some chance, I think, a small chance that this war against Ukraine could come to an end, right? I think that's probably what people might be excited about.

They might see a little opening there. And that's really what I want. Because at the end of the day, the people who get harmed are the Ukrainian civilians, Russian civilians, if this war continues to happen within their borders. And we've seen some attacks by the Ukrainian military on Russian soil. And I don't want innocent civilians to get harmed as a result of this madman, Vladimir Putin,

and his invasion into Ukraine, and his decision to employ a terrible, evil mercenary group, right? So now I think we're at the stage where we're in an assassination game. They're so far apart from one another that, I mean, Putin has done this many, many times, you cross him, and two years later, you're eating a pastry that turns out it's spilled chemicals that are going to kill

you in about 13 seconds, right? Or you fell from a hotel balcony to your death. Right. Or you committed suicide by tripping over the couch and falling out of the balcony. And so in Purgosha's case, though, he's the chef. So I suspect that he had some assassination at them, Bonafida as well. And that's the kind of game we're playing. But the best news guys is that

there was a rift in the first place and that the guy's out of the country. Because him taking over the country would have been the very worst case scenario. Now that he's out of the country, out of Russia, and out of Ukraine, if he doesn't come back in, now the incompetent defense minister is in charge. And he was the one bungling the war so badly that

they needed these mercenaries in the first place. And let me mention one other issue that Purgosha allegedly had with the higher ups in the Russian military. So I had already mentioned Sergei Shogu and the issues he's had with Shogu. But there's also Valerie Jarasmov, tried to bar Purgosha from further recruiting mercenaries from the prison system. And you got real angry about that. So those are like

some of the growing tensions that he was experiencing with the leadership in the Russian military. And after the, if look, if it was really an attempt at a coup, which I think would be incredibly stupid and really not strategic at all, later he turned around and said no, this wasn't really about a coup. Okay, this was really about showing our disdain for how our group is

being treated by the Russian military. He said, quote, we did not have the goal of overthrowing the existing regime and legally elected power. We turned around so as not to spill the blood of Russian soldiers, he said. So in regard to why he made the decision to take the deal that was brokered by the Belarusian president. Yes, and I actually believe it might be it's good

politics for him to say that. So you never know. But it looks like he threw out and I read about him before he was super mad at the Defense Minister and the Drasmon Park guy. And so, and that they had really been trying to undercut him. They were he was undercutting them. Remember that the bombs that went off in Moscow. It might have been also related

to the Wagner group and these guys having this internal recession. Another important point is as they were going through these towns, they were getting high fives from the citizens. Because remember in Russia, this guy, and there's one last twist, but this guy is known as a super tough fighter against the Ukrainians. He's not on the side of the Ukrainian. He's not on the side of the

Ukrainian. He's like the guy against the Ukrainians. It seems like his issue is that he feels Putin and the current Russian military is not Machiavellian. And enough in this war. And not vicious enough, right? So as he's getting high fives from the Russian civilians, the downside of that is they're high fiving a guy who's kind of a butcher, right? The upside of it is, well now

you got some serious dissension within it with I don't know that there's any power brokers left anymore. Like I said earlier, that would have enough strength to go get Putin. But the country starting to split apart at this seems a little bit. But one last bogey out there and I will give Progozion one more piece of credit, so I'll be two out of other wise horrific

human being is that finally when he all of this started, he did put out a statement saying like, I don't know why we went into Ukraine. Because the excuses we were told that they were about to attack us and that they were going to get NATO together and attack us isn't true. And I was like, oh. Interesting. That's a twist I didn't expect. Okay, so that's

a slightly positive thing. The worst case scenario, and I kind of lived through this from afar in Turkey. There's two people in Turkey that are very similar to this. Both terrible guys, one more fundamentalist than the other. When they were together, they were invincible. When they split, they started fighting against each other so much that they became a little bit more manageable. But they aired on

one, but the other guys worse. And this guy, this is very similar. But the worst case scenario is Putin goes, yeah, I don't know what I'm doing with this loser defense minister. You're fired slash assassinated slash a bathtub fell on you. Okay. And Progozion, you're the new defense minister. That's your worst case scenario. Oh my God. But I see Putin as a bit of an egomaniac.

So I don't know if he would be able to do that. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, I agree. I think that his ego will probably get in the way. But if I was him, I would say, certainly be considering that.