It’s been a busy day of me sitting in front of my computer, connected to a 500 mbps router, flapping my gums and trying to make sense of the world that is Ukraine and Russia. Here is the really good news — the direct connect from the router to my computer has eliminated the irritating momentary freezes that commonly attended my previous appearances on various channels.
My first sit down was with the lovely, smart Ania K. She is a generous interviewer and we had great chat. Turns out she was in Moscow last Friday as the Prigozhin mutiny got underway. She had a front row seat to the action.
Ania is Polish and I guess today turned out to be a day with Polish podcasters. Round two was with Mike Krupa, who is in Poland. He hosted a Round Table (I sure miss Gonzalo Lira who made this forum his speciality and pray for his quick release) with Ray McGovern and Andrei Martyanov. Both sessions lasted a little over an hour. So no marathons.
A quibble that others may have already raised: the Latin should be “Putin locutus, causa finita.” Gender mattered back before the barbarians appropriated western Europe.
Unless Putin is feminine (eg Putin, Putintis 3rd fem), in which case locuta is correct.
I’m inclined to think Putin is masculine 🙂
Best wishes.
Hey Larry. Carl Zha (Silk & Steel podcast) was in Moscow during this Pregozhin “thing.” He’s got a short podcast about it on YT.
Grandma came over on the boat from Poland. She was a vicious bitch that ran her world. And she loved me. If she was alive she would be on the plane to Poland and she would be bitchslapping some sense into those idiots. Getting into bed with the USA? Have you studied any fucking history?
maybe this is the problem ? the brave and righteous people of poland ancestry left the country and the cowards inherited the nation
“Here is the really good news — the direct connect from the router to my computer has eliminated the irritating momentary freezes that commonly attended my previous appearances on various channels.”
Buffering. So-o-o-o 20TH Century.
Here’s why I think buffering is just another way they toy with us. The ads never really buffer. The thing you are watching may buffer all the time. But not with the advertising. That comes across just fine.
Or, the buffering is built into the ads and is part of the content. Just one more thing to annoy us, made to make us hand over our cash just to be let alone.
Bet the PTB, the Deep State, and Sleepy Joe Biden don’t have to put up with buffering.
True, the ads get higher priority (in the form of earlier pre-loading, as well as a large local cache on your device).
But the issue in Larry’s case was to do with a weakness (or data bottleneck) at his end, rather than with his network provider, or across the wider internet. You can’t pre-load real-time live video, obviously.
Ads are not real-time live video.
Sound is now perfect!
Prigozhin. I am still of a bunch of minds on this. Right now, I view the Prigozhin as the Russian attempt at playing the whole Russo / US conflict as hysterical schoolgirl and ugly drunk.
Basically, IMO, at least for today, Russia has been watching the United States’ and the West’s insane behavior and said “Fine. You want to treat World War 3 as a party with the United States and the West behaving like a hysterical schoolgirl and ugly drunk. Two can play at that game.”
From this perspective, I found the whole Prigozhin thing un-nerving. If this is what we were being exposed to, this is the worst kind of brinksmanship, played as LGBT+. Nuclear War as woke cancel culture.
“Oh! Look! There’s a button. Let’s push it and see what happens.”
The Bronze Age Death Cult in DC should be praying to Baal that Putin stays for a long time.
He’s going to be a lot easier to surrender to than the hard-core nationalists that will follow.
Congrats! Excellent audio/video today.
I was beginning to imagine it was NSA trixsters causing the problems because they always seemed to occur when you were saying something important!
Larry,
What’s your opinion of the supposed absence of Surovikin and Gerasimov?
Russia just playing mind games with the West.
Well done, Larry. Thanks.
A lingering question for me about Prigojin in Belarus: isn’t it possible that there is still some use to squeeze out of him as someone outside of Russia and presented as a completely independent operator (plausible deniability for Russia)? Not a long-term contract but one more specific mission that might be the price for him to pay for extended “security guarantee?
Clausewitz – Kiev – Center of Gravity
found this interesting
https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/putin-begins-the-purges
regards,
ralph
Total western propaganda.
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State of the art commentary. The truth shines through.
May I add this concerning the propensity of attacking the Zaporhizhia nuclear power plant, a question that comes up towards the end of the discussion.
If there was fallout from such a catastrophe, I’ve not heard anyone talk about the prevailing seasonal winds in Ukraine in Summer which of course is important in terms of radioactive fallout.
In the Zaporhizhia region “The wind is most often from the north for 2.8 months, from 9 June to 3 September.” I have also read from another source that it can also shift to blowing from the north west on occasion.
https://weatherspark.com/y/99403/Average-Weather-in-Zaporizhia-Ukraine-Year-Round
So the probability of fallout direction would effect mostly the Southern regions including Crimea, and where the Russian troups are stationed under the current counter offensive.
If NATO supported a Ukrainian attack on the power plant, but blamed Russia for it, it could trigger Article 5 (as discussed), but most of western Europe would be far less likely to be affected. Then they could say Russia mindlessly shot itself in the foot.
What an excellent discussion BTW, some of the most capable minds I know all together discussing the current situation in Ukraine and Russia and far more. Pure gold in my opinion. Thank you all.
Just a correction: In my third paragraph I should have wrtten north east, not north west.
Andrei, Larry, Ray and Mike, great show guys. Back in the good old days, you guys would have been signed up for a daily show by the biggest TV companies and would have been the rock stars of political debates, lol.
I agree with Anya in that Progozin was a part of this deception. If I am wrong Yevgeny won’t be around soon (however, like John Wicks, every western assassin wants the bounty that the CIA has on him for swindling the agency for billions).
Let me say this “La Concerto Falsa”
Conducted by Mestro V Putin showed the brilliance of his 3 Tenors GRU,SVR, FSB accompanied by the Ballerina, Prima Donna Ms Progozhin reached a crescendo that only devils advocate ,black cat Nicolo Paganini playing his violin could achieve. Long live the Russian soul.
Larry: just take what is said in news and embrace it very superficial in the thought and not really think through what is going on and try to put in the context.”
Three words: “low context culture” which is prevalent in the west.
Prigozhin’s deranged claims viz Shoighu and Gerasimov lying to Putin about the situation in Donbass and denying Ukraine planned a major assault there is not a sign of mental illness on his part, IMHO, Larry. It was reinforcing an essential element in the west’s often repeated ‘unprovoked’ narrative regarding Putin’s SMO. If as you suggest (and I believe) MI6 were instrumental in turning Prigo into a bullet aimed at removing Putin, then it was a propaganda claim the spooks probably insisted on. If his coup had been successful, only possible with with the backing Nato’s air assets, his claims could’ve undermined wider acceptance of Putin’s rationale among the global south. Ridiculous as those claims are, they were part of the plot, not a sign that Prigo had lost it!
The key point is the western population’s mindset.
-The western population is not used to hardship. Few have experienced war.
– Most are specialized idiots, doing their job, but have no ability to do something else.
– they can be lead by the media, because they are lazy.
– they are lazy, because there is no need to be active.
What has to happen that this population gets afraid of war?
As long as we talk about abstract things like dedollarisation or economic decline, the population will notice these news like the weather report.
Is there something like shock and awe for the western population?
The cook was a pawn on the chessboard that moved forward, reached the other side of the board, and promoted to a rook!
However, as Larry pointed out with his “squirrel theory” , Nato thought they had the queen on the board to deal with!
But a grandmaster in chess thinks more than 2 moves ahead!
I think this whole farce in the Kremlin was indeed conceived as a “squirrel conjuring trick”, given the fact that the cook could just keep on ranting on and on, without being caught off guard even once!
Bearing in mind, that with the disappearance of the cook(and probably some more ex-convicts), little to nothing actually changed for the musicians. Except for the name of the company that transfers their salary, perhaps?
Even if I disagree about the fact that Prigozhin genuinely went rogue (I still believe he was part of a psyop and informed the Russians about his contacts with Western handlers), Larry Johnson explains very well how Russian intelligence may have operated in this situation, that is: don’t neutralize the upcoming mutiny, but let the whole thing play out, and let’s see who and how many are involved in it.
This is exaclty how Italian police managed to dismantle some powerful mafia-crime-syndicates in southern Italy: once they identified a mafia-boss, they did not arrest him immediately, they waited and watched (even for years) in order to see if he was connected to other more high-ranking criminals or rogue politicians.
Larry,
Dear Sir,
This video with Ania K was just great, she is awesome ! she is extraordinary, an what intelligent observer!
Unfortunately in the video she states that her opinion differs from yours about the events. But she doesn’t go into explaining her disagreement with yours.
The second video, with the three musketeers…
Absolutely clairvoyant and intelligent! Furthermore, it should be used as a teaching model in University courses on geopolitics and intelligence.
Today Friday the 30th the entire global planet looks horrified as ‘Paris burns’ and it is not a fiction film… where is Pregozhin ? is he in Paris to attend a new production of “Tristan und Isolde” the most famous Wagner Opera ?
Ah!
in Wagner Operas every act…has consequences…
“This video with Ania K was just great, she is awesome ! she is extraordinary, an what intelligent observer!
Unfortunately, in the video she states that her opinion differs from yours about the events. But she doesn’t go into explaining her disagreement with yours.”
The way I interpreted her view is she feels Prigozhin was one of the actors in this Putsch Play. This is still my view after a week has gone by with the key factors in my mind being the relationship between him and Putin, no definitive proof of the shootdowns, and the non-tense atmosphere from videos of that day. Though the other video makes a good argument that he is a Madman whining over lost money with the Russia Government using the situation to run their own operation for obtaining several objectives such as troop movement, smoking out traitors within, getting one up on western Intel agencies, etc.
Damn man, this is one fascinating story. The next step I am looking for is a major Russian offensive coming, especially this weekend since many in Washington would be out of town for the Fourth of July holiday.
We will see.
Thomas
Larry I’m late on this.
On your interview with Ania K. , you’re more than courageous in stiking out your neck , especially in the US, in expressing such points of view. America really needs more people like you to bring it back to it’s world geopol leadership position. Continue keeping me in top of what you’re delivering on Sonar21
Are you the one who recommended Stephen Breyer “Weapons and Strategy”? He seems to be saying the direct opposite of what you and Andrei Martanyov have been saying. I can’t remember where I heard of him. I thought it is your recommendation, or have I got it wrong?
I’ve stated he is a friend. Friends don’t always agree. I disagree with his latest. It is Stephen Bryen not Breyer.
I was just going to correct myself, but you beat me to it! With so much info floating around, it’s difficult to properly assess the situation. Many thanks for all the hard work you do.
Well, the “coup” was there, and then it wasn’t. It has become quite the Rorschach test, with all save Larry projecting our pet theories onto it.
One aspect of the timing has been overlooked. It was a holiday treat.
School leaving is a big deal in Russia. The girls dress up in Tsarist school uniform, which not uncoincidentally looks like a sexy French maid’s outfit, the boys dress up smartly, and all wear a special red sash. They spend the afternoon frolicking in fountains and larking about, while the police keep a low profile.
https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/328377-last-bell-russian-teenagers-celebrate
So, whatever the coup was about, it coincided with a carnival weekend atmosphere of misrule. Whichever side you favour, you can find pictures of joyful crowds to prove all Russia is on your side. Jim Kunstler was moved by the St Petersburg crowds lining the Neva to celebrate the nation’s deliverance. But Red Sails was a Last Bell celebration, given added piquancy by the day’s events.
Two days later, President Putin addressed the graduating students:
“You are facing a lot of roads and an incredible number of opportunities. It is very important that each of you can find a path of your own – an occupation in which your talents, abilities, and potential will be revealed to the maximum degree and which you will love.
“I believe that it is important to always set the highest bar for yourself regardless of what profession you eventually choose. You should try to solve problems, no matter how small, with honours, to do your utmost with regard to any job at hand, and never surrender or lose heart if something doesn’t play out right away. And then you will be sure to achieve success – personal, creative, and professional – and your dreams are bound to come true.”
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/copy/68701
Of course, this was written long before. But he saw no need to change a word.
Confucting to say the least
The guy the US installed as president of Ukraine in the 2014 Maidan coup (Yatsenyuk – “Yats is our guy.”) has second thoughts. Instructive …
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8YRQXb0TRlBF/