Mon Jun 26, 2023 – 3:09 pm EDTMon Jun 26, 2023 – 3:20 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Regime change in Russia lasted 24 hours, revealing more about the means by which the news is made than the situation itself.
For this one day in June, the picture of reality was shaken by events. A strong signal of unknown significance, it attracted the full power of narrative manufacture.
How did this event come to be seen as both the collapse and the consolidation of power by a visibly enraged President Vladimir Putin?
What has been excluded from the picture is the most significant information, which flatters neither point of view.
Wagner’s origins
The Wagner Group was founded in 2014 as a means of projecting military power without invasion into the Donbass. It is named after the nom de guerre of its presumed founder, Dmitry Utkin.
With the outbreak of hostilities in these two heavily Russian regions of Ukraine in 2014, Russian intelligence agencies founded a private military company as a vehicle for furnishing support to the two self-declared autonomous republics of Lugansk and Donetsk.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the former hot dog vendor known as “Putin’s chef,” did not
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