Name: Coup Against Putin 2022-03-03 5:33
Judging by his safe distancing from top Russian officials, Russian President Vladimir Putin may be less concerned about catching Covid than he is about an Operation Valkyrie-style attempt by the upper echelon in the government, intelligence agencies, and military to "decapitate" the would-be czar in the same manner that he is trying to decapitate the leadership of Ukraine by executing them. Operation Valkyrie was the unsuccessful July 20, 1944 attempt by senior German military officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler. The plotters had placed a bomb under a conference table at Hitler's Wolf's Lair compound deep in the forest in East Prussia. Valkyrie also provides an important historical lesson for any Russian officials contemplating assassinating Putin. Their attempt cannot fail because they will not have a second opportunity. They will be quickly identified, arrested, and executed.
Intelligence reports from Western sources are claiming that Putin has become increasingly paranoid as his invasion of Ukraine has suffered various setbacks with reports of mutinies, mass desertions, and Russian personnel sabotaging their own tanks and other military vehicles. On February 21, Putin, physically distanced from top members of his Security Council, asked the security chiefs about his plans to recognize the independence of two breakaway predominantly Russian-speaking regions in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. When Putin asked the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin, the former speaker of the State Duma, about the plan to recognize the two ersatz states, Naryshkin, standing nervously behind a lectern, replied that he would support such a move but only after giving the West one last chance to negotiate a diplomatic settlement.
Putin, upset with Naryshkin's failure to declare that he totally approved of the plan, chastised the spy chief: "Will support, or do support? Tell me straight, Sergei Yevgenievich." Naryshkin replied that he supported the states -- Lugansk and Donetsk -- becoming part of Russia. Putin grew more angry, "We’re not talking about that . . . We’re talking about whether to recognize their independence or not.” Naryshkin replied, "Yes, I support the proposal to recognize their independence.” Putin, clearly exasperated with his foreign intelligence chief, curtly said, "OK, please sit down, thank you.” The scene, which was aired on Russian television, could have been a scene from the movie "Downfall," in which Hitler, trapped in his bunker under the Chancellery in Berlin as Soviet troops neared the center of the German capital, berated his generals for their incompetence.
A week later, after Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, an operation which got off to a bad start, the Russian president, again on television, was seen berating his two top military officials, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. The February 28 meeting featured Putin sitting at the opposite end of an extremely long table from the two defense officials, giving rise to comparisons to a James Bond movie in which the chief villain dispatches disloyal agents by plunging them through a trap door into a shark tank at the push of a button. Neither Shoigu nor Gerasimov looked pleased as Putin spoke to them about the conduct of the Ukraine campaign.
While Putin did not press a button to send Shoigu and Gerasimov to a watery encounter with man-eating sharks, there were unconfirmed reports out of Moscow that Putin fired the highly-decorated Gerasimov. Putin, who was a colonel in the Soviet State Security Committee, the KGB, was not a military officer in the Soviet armed forces. Putin's treatment of Gerasimov, a career soldier, drew comparisons to Hitler's berating his generals. Coming from a former Austrian corporal in the German Army during World War I, Hitler's disdain for his generals and field marshals only served to create greater enmity toward him and his Nazi Party among the Oberkommando of the Wehrmacht. At least ten members of the Oberkommando provided critical intelligence on all major Nazi operations, including Operation Barbarossa -- the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Valkyrie, and the "final solution of the Jewish problem" to, first, the Soviets, and later to the Americans and British. The conduit was the war's most secret intelligence operation, known as the Lucerne or "Lucy ring," based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Putin may be going down the same road as far as many of his senior officers are concerned. Could his "Lucy ring" be currently operating out of Minsk, Vilnius, Chisinau, Istanbul, or Warsaw? If it is and Biden's intelligence officials are involved with it, they can ill-afford to leak such secrets to the Republican pro-Russia saboteurs and informants in political office in Washington.
Historians have noted that Soviet leaders only remained secure in their positions so long as two legs of the Soviet political triskelion propped them up. They were the Soviet Communist Party, the KGB, and the armed forces. When a Soviet leader was left with the support of only one of the legs or none at all, they were unceremoniously ousted. Such were the fates of Georgi Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
After the demise of the USSR, the construct changed in the Russian Federation, but the triskelion on which Russian leaders rely remained. The components are now the Russian armed forces, the Russian billionaire oligarchs, and the SVR and Federal Security Bureau (FSB) intelligence agencies. By publicly humiliating Gerasimov and, perhaps other senior military officers, as well as the chief of the SVR and Shoigu, an ethnic Tuvan, Putin may have tipped the scales against his hold on power. Even some of the oligarchs have begun showing discontent with Putin as Western powers freeze their bank accounts and seize their yachts, private jets, and luxury condominiums.
Any coup plot against Putin will have to be a strictly organic Russian affair. If any support from Western intelligence is provided, it must be with the caveat of plausible deniability should any Russian plotters be forced, through torture, to admit to foreign connections. In 1991, when Gorbachev was ousted by hardline Communists in a coup, the U.S. National Security Agency provided Russian Federation leader Boris Yeltsin with decrypted intercepts of the landline communications between two of the chief coup plotters, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and KGB chief (and Putin's then boss) Vladimir Kryuchkov. President George H. W. Bush had technically broken the law by not informing Congress of his decision to share sensitive and classified intercepts with Yeltsin. But, in those days, few in Congress would have opposed the decision and, unlike the situation today, none would have telegraphed such knowledge directly or indirectly to the Kremlin coup leaders.
One of the clear problems in staging a coup against Putin with covert Western intelligence support is the presence in the U.S., Canadian, and British governments and political opposition of pro-Putin neo-fascists. These include Donald Trump, whose wives have included daughters of Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian Communist apparatchiks and secret police intelligence sources; and other disloyal Americans, including Senators Josh Hawley, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz; Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Chip Roy, and Thomas Massie; and Governors Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Bill Lee, and Kristi Noem. Former Trump national security adviser and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency chief, Lieut. Gen. Michael Flynn, is a bona fide Putin implant having current friends, supporters, and contacts within the U.S. Intelligence Community. His brother, Lieut. Gen. Charles Flynn, is the Commander of the U.S. Army Indo-Pacific Command in Fort Shafter, Hawaii. As a Trump loyalist, his current access to NSA intercepts of Russian high-level military and diplomatic communications is also extremely problematic for any U.S. intelligence support for an anti-Putin coup. Such fifth columnists pose a danger to not only U.S. national security but the very lives of any Russian coup plotters and supporting coup operatives in Ukraine, Belarus, or other nations.
https://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/march-23-2022-prospects-and-mechanics-coup-against
Intelligence reports from Western sources are claiming that Putin has become increasingly paranoid as his invasion of Ukraine has suffered various setbacks with reports of mutinies, mass desertions, and Russian personnel sabotaging their own tanks and other military vehicles. On February 21, Putin, physically distanced from top members of his Security Council, asked the security chiefs about his plans to recognize the independence of two breakaway predominantly Russian-speaking regions in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. When Putin asked the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergei Naryshkin, the former speaker of the State Duma, about the plan to recognize the two ersatz states, Naryshkin, standing nervously behind a lectern, replied that he would support such a move but only after giving the West one last chance to negotiate a diplomatic settlement.
Putin, upset with Naryshkin's failure to declare that he totally approved of the plan, chastised the spy chief: "Will support, or do support? Tell me straight, Sergei Yevgenievich." Naryshkin replied that he supported the states -- Lugansk and Donetsk -- becoming part of Russia. Putin grew more angry, "We’re not talking about that . . . We’re talking about whether to recognize their independence or not.” Naryshkin replied, "Yes, I support the proposal to recognize their independence.” Putin, clearly exasperated with his foreign intelligence chief, curtly said, "OK, please sit down, thank you.” The scene, which was aired on Russian television, could have been a scene from the movie "Downfall," in which Hitler, trapped in his bunker under the Chancellery in Berlin as Soviet troops neared the center of the German capital, berated his generals for their incompetence.
A week later, after Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, an operation which got off to a bad start, the Russian president, again on television, was seen berating his two top military officials, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. The February 28 meeting featured Putin sitting at the opposite end of an extremely long table from the two defense officials, giving rise to comparisons to a James Bond movie in which the chief villain dispatches disloyal agents by plunging them through a trap door into a shark tank at the push of a button. Neither Shoigu nor Gerasimov looked pleased as Putin spoke to them about the conduct of the Ukraine campaign.
While Putin did not press a button to send Shoigu and Gerasimov to a watery encounter with man-eating sharks, there were unconfirmed reports out of Moscow that Putin fired the highly-decorated Gerasimov. Putin, who was a colonel in the Soviet State Security Committee, the KGB, was not a military officer in the Soviet armed forces. Putin's treatment of Gerasimov, a career soldier, drew comparisons to Hitler's berating his generals. Coming from a former Austrian corporal in the German Army during World War I, Hitler's disdain for his generals and field marshals only served to create greater enmity toward him and his Nazi Party among the Oberkommando of the Wehrmacht. At least ten members of the Oberkommando provided critical intelligence on all major Nazi operations, including Operation Barbarossa -- the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Operation Valkyrie, and the "final solution of the Jewish problem" to, first, the Soviets, and later to the Americans and British. The conduit was the war's most secret intelligence operation, known as the Lucerne or "Lucy ring," based in Lucerne, Switzerland. Putin may be going down the same road as far as many of his senior officers are concerned. Could his "Lucy ring" be currently operating out of Minsk, Vilnius, Chisinau, Istanbul, or Warsaw? If it is and Biden's intelligence officials are involved with it, they can ill-afford to leak such secrets to the Republican pro-Russia saboteurs and informants in political office in Washington.
Historians have noted that Soviet leaders only remained secure in their positions so long as two legs of the Soviet political triskelion propped them up. They were the Soviet Communist Party, the KGB, and the armed forces. When a Soviet leader was left with the support of only one of the legs or none at all, they were unceremoniously ousted. Such were the fates of Georgi Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
After the demise of the USSR, the construct changed in the Russian Federation, but the triskelion on which Russian leaders rely remained. The components are now the Russian armed forces, the Russian billionaire oligarchs, and the SVR and Federal Security Bureau (FSB) intelligence agencies. By publicly humiliating Gerasimov and, perhaps other senior military officers, as well as the chief of the SVR and Shoigu, an ethnic Tuvan, Putin may have tipped the scales against his hold on power. Even some of the oligarchs have begun showing discontent with Putin as Western powers freeze their bank accounts and seize their yachts, private jets, and luxury condominiums.
Any coup plot against Putin will have to be a strictly organic Russian affair. If any support from Western intelligence is provided, it must be with the caveat of plausible deniability should any Russian plotters be forced, through torture, to admit to foreign connections. In 1991, when Gorbachev was ousted by hardline Communists in a coup, the U.S. National Security Agency provided Russian Federation leader Boris Yeltsin with decrypted intercepts of the landline communications between two of the chief coup plotters, Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov and KGB chief (and Putin's then boss) Vladimir Kryuchkov. President George H. W. Bush had technically broken the law by not informing Congress of his decision to share sensitive and classified intercepts with Yeltsin. But, in those days, few in Congress would have opposed the decision and, unlike the situation today, none would have telegraphed such knowledge directly or indirectly to the Kremlin coup leaders.
One of the clear problems in staging a coup against Putin with covert Western intelligence support is the presence in the U.S., Canadian, and British governments and political opposition of pro-Putin neo-fascists. These include Donald Trump, whose wives have included daughters of Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavian Communist apparatchiks and secret police intelligence sources; and other disloyal Americans, including Senators Josh Hawley, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz; Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Chip Roy, and Thomas Massie; and Governors Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Bill Lee, and Kristi Noem. Former Trump national security adviser and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency chief, Lieut. Gen. Michael Flynn, is a bona fide Putin implant having current friends, supporters, and contacts within the U.S. Intelligence Community. His brother, Lieut. Gen. Charles Flynn, is the Commander of the U.S. Army Indo-Pacific Command in Fort Shafter, Hawaii. As a Trump loyalist, his current access to NSA intercepts of Russian high-level military and diplomatic communications is also extremely problematic for any U.S. intelligence support for an anti-Putin coup. Such fifth columnists pose a danger to not only U.S. national security but the very lives of any Russian coup plotters and supporting coup operatives in Ukraine, Belarus, or other nations.
https://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/march-23-2022-prospects-and-mechanics-coup-against