Morning Jolt: Did ‘General Armageddon’ Help Plan the Russian Coup?

On the menu today: Sorting through all of the strange and contradictory reports about the weekend's almost-coup in Russia.

An Unprepared Putin

Many aspects of this weekend's short-lived coup attempt in Russia remain mysterious, but the Wall Street Journal's Bojan Pancevski, the paper's Germany correspondent, sheds a little light on what Yevgeny Prigozhin wanted to do:

Prigozhin originally intended to capture Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia's general staff, during a visit to a southern region that borders Ukraine that the two were planning. But the Federal Security Service, or FSB, found out about the plan two days before it was to be executed, according to Western officials.

One big, almost mind-blowing question is how Prigozhin and the Wagner Group could effectively "sneak up" on a leader as spectacularly paranoid as Vladimir Putin. Perhaps Prigozhin helped his cause by hiding in plain sight, ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY June 28 2023 WITH JIM GERAGHTY June 28 2023 Did 'General Armageddon' Help Plan the Russian Coup? On the menu today: Sorting through all of the strange and contradictory reports about the weekend's almost-coup in Russia. An Unprepared Putin Many aspects of this weekend's short-lived coup attempt in Russia remain mysterious, but the Wall Street Journal's Bojan Pancevski, the paper's Germany correspondent, sheds a little light on what Yevgeny Prigozhin wanted to do: Prigozhin originally intended to capture Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia's general staff, during a visit to a southern region that borders Ukraine that the two were planning. But the Federal Security Service, or FSB, found out about the plan two days before it was to be executed, according to Western officials. One big, almost mind-blowing question is how Prigozhin and the Wagner Group could effectively "sneak up" on a leader as spectacularly paranoid as Vladimir Putin. Perhaps Prigozhin helped his cause by hiding in plain sight, ...   READ MORE

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