I just watched Putin’s address after Wagner took Rostov. He was clearly reading from the teleprompter.
I’ve been having my doubts about Putin for a while. I am pretty sure he is being manipulated precisely the way Fletcher Prouty has told us how American presidents are manipulated. Whether you are locked in the Oval office or Kremlin, you depend on the info you get on your desk. You really have no clue of what’s going on in the real world.
Jealous Shoigu and Gerasimov were doing horrible things to Prigozhin for a while – like depriving his soldiers of ammo, taking away Prigozhin’s ability to communicate over satellite phone or refusing his entry to the ministry of defense. Now Prigozhin tells a story of having to take his soldiers over mine fields out of Artemovsk/ Bakhmut. But what drove him to turn his group onto Moscow is bombing his camp by RF forces.
He is going to lose this fight UNFORTUNATELY. As always, the real treasonous asses like Shoigu and Gerasimov are going to stay at the top, and a true patriot is going to gulags

About Prigozhin – he is a patriot, not a politician. I cannot say the same about Shoigu or Gerasimov. They are so jealous of the Wagner group successes that they have been doing a lot of funny things. The latest is actually bombing the Wagner camp. That’s why Prigozhin has done what he did. If he was a politician he would not have done this. But he is a straight shooter and now he signed his death sentence, and I am incredibly sad for him and for Russia. Russia like any country is full of all kinds, and the worst kind usually gets to the top there like everywhere else, while real patriots get suicided