Fox News has apparently discovered a scoop that has gone completely under the radar to all but the most deeply embedded of the Illuminati. The big news? Namely, that Wagner mercenary leader and erstwhile Putin warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin was not acting of his own volition, but rather was instead secretly doing the U.S.’s (presumably through the CIA) bidding when he engineered his brief “coup” attempt against the Kremlin this weekend.
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Yes, you heard that right: in engineering his abortive march on Moscow, the bloodthirsty Prigozhin simply joined a long list of dupes to the evil machinations of the Biden administration and its sprawling intelligence apparatus.
Embarking on this foray into the Conspira-verse, Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy boldly declares that since the “Eye-Raq and Afghanistan war” she sure won’t be letting the “government” pull the wool over her eyes, so she’s “always questioning things” (curiously, she doesn’t explain exactly what it was about the Iraq war that led to this skepticism).
First, she leads Fox’s resident Russian analyst “expert,” Rebekah Koffler into agreeing that a U.S. or NATO (apparently the two are interchangeable)-orchestrated coup was a distinct possibility. Then she repeats that conclusion to K.T. McFarland, a former Michael Flynn adviser in the Trump administration, who agrees that Koffler is “right” and drifts into a more general statement about U.S. involvement in Ukraine. In neither interview is there even the suggestion of any evidence supporting such a claim.
If true, this would have been an amazing validation of the sinister (and apparently limitless) power of President Biden to influence events. And it happens to be a conspiracy theory that would also fit right in with the network’s habitual parroting of Kremlin talking points. In fact, had Prigozhin’s weekend tantrum progressed to the fighting stage, it’s practically guaranteed that Putin would have used this line against him.
As things unfolded, this fabulist assertion didn’t age well. If either NATO or the U.S. had actually engineered Prigozhin’s short-lived coup attempt, then NATO or the U.S. must have resolved it as well, resulting in what had to be an incredible waste of time and resources. Either that or both Putin and Prigozhin experienced an epiphany in which they suddenly realized that they’d been pawns of the U.S. CIA (or NATO) all along. How embarrassing for them!
In the real world, however, there is zero evidence that either the U.S., the CIA or NATO magically orchestrated or even influenced Prigozhin’s thinking or actions here, and it’s completely irresponsible to suggest that is what occurred. On one level, what it does is feed into the generalized distrust by Fox viewers of anything that could possibly be traced back to President Biden, while feeding conspiracy theorists with the bogus idea that they have some “special knowledge.” But more importantly, it smears the U.S. government and intelligence community as the cause of a potentially volatile and deadly mess in Russia and provides Vladimir Putin with helpful propaganda support in his hour of need. Mission accomplished, Fox News.
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