Contrary to what you might have heard on some media outlets (like the bearded troll at the least trusted name in news), new reporting indicates that the United States wasn't "caught off guard" by the insurrection mounted by Wagner Group war criminal Yevgeny Prigozhin yesterday:
U.S. spy agencies picked up intelligence in mid-June indicating Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin was planning armed action against the Russian defense establishment — which he has long accused of bungling the war in Ukraine — and urgently informed the White House and other government agencies so they were not caught off guard, several U.S. officials said Saturday.
The exact nature and timing of Prigozhin’s plans were not clear until shortly before his stunning takeover of a military command and tank run toward Moscow on Friday and Saturday, officials said. But “there were enough signals to be able to tell the leadership … that something was up,” said one U.S. official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. “So I think they were ready for it.”
Over the past two weeks there was “high concern” about what might transpire — whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would remain in power and what any instability might mean for control of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, the official said. “There were lots of questions along those lines,” this person said.
The instability that might result from a Russian “civil war” was the key fear, officials said.
In addition to the White House, senior officials at the Pentagon, State Department and in Congress were briefed within the past two weeks on the intelligence, officials said. CNN earlier reported that officials had briefed congressional leaders this past week...
You'll note that members of Congress were also briefed on the intelligence, so any bullshit about being "caught off guard" coming from Putin's Republican pals is just that -- bullshit. You'll also see there won't be any "corrections" offered by any of the media who were quick to assert that misinformation about U.S. intelligence agencies.
That doesn't stop the MAGAt Putin pals from stirring up conspiracies and false equivalences about the insurrection, especially the more intellectually challenged MAGAts:
After our government has been funding a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine for over a year, I sure hope our government isn’t behind a coup attempt currently happening in Russia.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 24, 2023
Regime change in a nuclear armed country may lead to terrible consequences the American people don’t…
"I sure hope the autocrat sending me money isn't the target of a U.S. Government coup attempt." How's that for a conspiracy?!
More MAGAt moron droppings here.
