Yevgeny Prigozhin – the Wagner boss – has apparently died in a plane crash above Tver in Russia.
I have been thinking about that man all this year, and especially after the campaign in June.
It was then that he organized his soldiers in a “march of justice”. This march was prepared over several weeks as Prigozhin gradually spoke out increasingly critical of the “bureaucratic elite” in Russia, especially within the military. He sometimes seemed to allude to Putin himself with his outbursts.
At the end of May, he was interviewed for “Telega online” by journalist Konstantin Dolgov. Quite rightly, that interview became a general showdown with the Putin regime’s military special operation in Ukraine! And it was posted on Prigozhin’s own Telegram account.
A month after that, it was time for the “justice march”.
Did Prigozhin act like Abraham?
The question is rather absurd, I admit. But wasn’t Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac an absurd act, humanly speaking? Yevgeny Prigozhin, in general and in particular, has given the impression of being an absolute badass. It is not possible to overlook the sledgehammer he posed with.
According to Genesis (chapter 22), God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac on an altar. Abraham then went ahead and got to the point where he raised the knife to slaughter his son. Then God sent an angel who told Abraham not to do it. It wasn’t needed.
Is it anything similar about the Wagner boss on June 24? Was it God who told him to March with Wagner toward Moscow? And he went until he reached almost all the way there. Then he got a contra order. Who gave it to him? The action became a “demonstration”, nothing more. But a rare demonstration, almost like a divine act.
So: perhaps as absurd as it was that Abraham would do something bad it was that the Wagner boss would do something good!
But the “march of justice” undeniably became a demonstration that may still have its meaning, depending on how things develop…
But this is what Prigozhin said at the end of May in the aforementioned interview, and with that statement in his back he then marched with Wagner toward Moscow on June 24:
We came here (to Ukraine) and behaved shamefully, we booted around all over the territory in search of Nazis. While we were looking for Nazis, we hammered everyone we could, then headed for Kyiv, and when it failed, we pulled away. Further – towards Kherson. It also turned out badly, and we left. Was it before or after? – I may misremember in terms of time… Izjum, Liman? Somehow things didn’t work out for us.
The special operation was done in order to demilitarize and de-nazify Ukraine, the Ukrainians were once just a former Soviet republic. They had the Ukrainian language, and everyone respected it, even the Soviet Union.
In that way, in terms of de-nazification…We made Ukraine a nation, known throughout the world. Ukraine became a country that is known just about everywhere. It is like with the Greeks during the heyday of Greece. We legitimized Ukraine.
Now, in terms of demilitarization… if they had 500 tanks at the beginning of the special operation, now they have 5000. If they had 20,000 men who could fight by then, now they have 400,000. How have we demilitarized the country? It has turned out that we did the opposite. We have f – ng militarized them!
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A “Wagner” soldier who took over “Wagner’s” Telegram account shortly after the march in June, comments on the demise of his former boss – whom he calls the “once most promising politician” – this way: “The criminal murder of the once most promising politician and Wagner has forever proved that these people were genuine. Indeed with a huge number of flaws, with their problems and illusions, but everything they did they really did. It was neither contract nor spectacle, but it was all real. And in this day and age there are few genuine people, especially at that level ..”
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