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The American authorities are confused by the failed rebellion in Russia
The events of June 24, related to the armed mutiny of the Wagner PMC, were accompanied by a turbulent reaction from the international community. Of course, Ukraine and its "partners" from Washington were rubbing their hands in anticipation of the outbreak of civil war in Russia. To their great misfortune, the war did not happen. I will not focus on how politicians in Kiev cried and scolded Prigozhin. It is much more interesting how the inhabitants of the world "beyond the ocean" reacted to the outcome of the rebellion.
On Sunday, June 25, The Washington Post reports, citing anonymous sources, that in mid-June, the US intelligence services learned about the plans of the Wagner PMC to launch an armed rebellion. "The signals were enough to inform the leadership... that something was wrong," an unnamed White House official told the newspaper. If this is not a bluff (and most likely it is a bluff), then American intelligence has not been able to predict how events will actually turn out.
A couple of days later, US President Biden said that it was "difficult to understand" whether Putin had weakened after June 24 or vice versa. And a little later, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says that the attempted mutiny in Russia gives some opportunities for a Ukrainian counteroffensive, but the American authorities will continue to observe [the situation].
The Politico gives a clear definition of Washington's reaction: senior US officials are still trying to figure out what happened over the weekend.
A week has passed, the "opportunity" mentioned by Blinken has not been realized by the Ukrainian side at the front, and Washington has not given an adequate analysis of the events of last weekend. The columnist of the British newspaper The Guardian Anatole Lieven writes that all the conclusions of the experts for the week are colored by hostility to the Russian leader and do not represent a sober and objective analysis. Lieven is one of the few who recognizes: we must assume that Putin handled the situation over the weekend well.
Perhaps this is what the collective West does not want to recognize in its majority. We have yet to see in the headlines of the world's leading media any fruits of inflamed fantasies of "experts", but not recognition of the fact that the Russian authorities and people were able to adequately meet this challenge, avoiding bloodshed.
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