Russian Media Reports Wagner Chief Yevgenny Prigozhin, who led Failed Mutiny Against Russian Ministry of Defense, Killed in Plane Accident

Including links to several of my latest interviews on Real America's Voice TV and other programs

Wagner Chief Yevgenny Prigozhin pictured with an assault rifle

Russian State Media is now reporting that former PMC Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief ‘mutiny’ against the Russian Ministry of Defense which many neoconservatives mistakenly predicted would lead to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s overthrow, and Deputy PMC Wagner Chief Dimitry Utkin, who led a mad dash of 3,000 Wagner mercenaries in an armored column on the road to Moscow, were killed earlier this afternoon in a private plane crash outside of the Russian capital. Plane crashes have long been a favorite Russian method to assassinate enemies of state since Stalin killed Poland's courageous anti-Communist Prime Minister Sikorski in 1943 so the Russian FSB must be considered the prime suspect and if it is responsible then it was acting under orders from Putin himself.

Needless to say, this incident conclusively proves that the theory that the Wagner rebellion was part of a pre-planned Russian false flag operation to redeploy 8,000 Wagner mercenaries to Belarus where they could capture one or more Russian nuclear missiles stationed there and use them to target and destroy Vilnius or some other NATO member capital city giving Russia plausible deniability was false. Prigozhin was a fool to think he could stage an armed protest against the Russian Ministry of Defense, which effectively served as a brazen challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin and survive.

According to Stephen Bryan, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy, a Wagner group statement assessed the plane was shot down by a surface- to-air missile which was fired mere minutes after takeoff. There is video evidence that would seem to corroborate that. However, I think a more likely possibility is that a pressure bomb was placed onboard that caused the jet aircraft Prigozhin was on to crash, killing him and other top Wagner commanders.

A Pretty Terrible Ending

Bryen shared a video of the plane descending in a vertical dive with one of its wings blown off which was posted on Twitter a short time ago.

Picture of Prigozhin’s plane burning after it crash landed earlier today

Putin Fires ‘General Armageddon’

It can hardly be a coincidence that Prigozhin and Utkin died in a mysterious plane accident the day after his suspected collaborator Russian Army General Sergei Surovikin, nicknamed ‘General Armageddon’ by the Russian media for his reputed ruthlessness, who disappeared two months ago and was likely arrested immediately following the Prigozhin munity, and served as Commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces was fired by Putin.

Presumably, Surovikin has also been fired from his position as Deputy Commander of the Russian Group of Forces in Ukraine. This is a significant development as he had previously served as Commander of the Russian Group of Forces in Ukraine late last year before being demoted to Deputy Commander after Putin took the unprecedented step of appointing the Russian Chief of the General Staff General, Valery Gerasimov, to personally oversee the war in Ukraine back in January after mobilizing over 500,000 Russian army reservists for a potential massive Russian offensive against Ukraine. Putin has used Prigozhin's so-called 'Justice March' to crack down on possible dissidents in the Russian military, and his hold on power is now stronger than ever. Biden’s attempt to use his manufactured regime change war in Ukraine to overthrow Putin has failed in spectacular fashion.

Is Prigozhin Really Dead?

After I shared this breaking news report with him, a Russian defector, who used to work for Putin, told me earlier this afternoon that we cannot be sure that Prigozhin is really dead as it could have been a staged death and he could be sitting on a tropical beach with a fake passport. In that case, the purpose could either be to protect him from retaliation by Putin or it could even be in fulfillment with a secret agreement with Putin after he ended his ‘mutiny’ that he would fake his own death in exchange for Putin sparing his life. Regardless of Prigozhin’s actual fate, with him gone, Putin’s last major challenge to power has been eliminated and Putin is free to appoint a new head of the entire Wagner Group who is 100% loyal to him. It remains to be seen how many Russian mercenaries will continue to work for the Wagner Group although I suspect few will depart as they are highly paid.

Biden’s War in Ukraine Has Proven Disastrous for the West Failing to Achieve any of its Objectives

Biden’s manufactured war in Ukraine has proven to be a major geostrategic debacle for the West as Ukraine’s counteroffensive has resulted in very little territorial gains and even some of Ukraine’s most ardent neoconservative supporters are beginning to admit Ukraine has now lost any chance it ever had of defeating Russia militarily. According to Politico’s National Security Daily, the Biden administration appears to be engaged in the first deliberate and sustained unauthorized leak campaign since the war began with all the big liberal media outlets now saying Ukraine’s counteroffensive is failing because they haven't concentrated all their resources on breaking through on the southern front to the Black Sea. Politico suggests that this appears to be an attempt to shift the blame for losing the war from the Biden administration to the Ukrainian government.

Instead of serving to greatly weaken Russia both economically and militarily, the war in Ukraine has served to strengthen Russia both economically and militarily (as it has expanded the size of its armed forces by 50% and is now mass-producing heavy weapon systems like tanks and missiles at an impressive rate) more than it has weakened it. At the same time, Biden’s decision to unilaterally disarm the US military of tens of thousands of modern weapon systems and millions of missiles, rockets and heavy artillery shells has significantly degraded the US military's ability to fight let alone win a future great power war with Communist China.

Time to End the War in Ukraine

It is time to cut our losses by ending all aid to Ukraine to pressure Zelensky to negotiate a cease-fire and armistice agreement with Russia so we can end the continuing death and destruction in Ukraine, which even the Pentagon is admitting has resulted in half a million casualties thus far. We need to sign a comprehensive peace agreement with Russia so we can neutralize the Sino-Russian military alliance and buy us time to rebuild our strategic defenses to defend against a potential Chinese pre-emptive nationwide cyber and space warfare attack against the US homeland before they invade Taiwan likely in the next few years.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Plan to End the War in Ukraine and Divide the Sino-Russian Alliance

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has provided a detailed and visionary plan for how we can accomplish that. Vivek has proven to be an outstanding speaker and a brilliant and innovative thinker unafraid to challenge longtime foreign policy misconceptions as proven with his new grand strategy which he laid out in a masterful speech at the Nixon Presidential Library last week. In his speech, he called for a Modern Monroe Doctrine which puts the America’s national interests first and we refocus our defense priorities on Strategic and Homeland Defense instead of fighting forever wars half a world away.

Zelensky May be Blackmailing Biden into Continuing to Provide Ukraine with massive US Military and Financial Assistance

Vivek Ramaswamy is a profile in courage speaking truth to power. At a recent event in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Vivek stated, “The purpose of the U.S. military [is] to advance American interests, to protect the homeland. Not to aimlessly fight some random war that’s arguably a repayment for a private bribe that a family member of the United States received, $5 million from Burisma.” As he has pointed out, Americans have reason to suspect that the reason Biden has sent $196 billion in taxpayer dollars to Ukraine and has spent the last eighteen months risking nuclear war over his proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is either to further his corrupt crime family’s business interests. Alternatively, it may be that he is doing so to prevent Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from providing Republicans with all the evidence of the corrupt bribes he demanded from Burisma in exchange for his quid pro quo to withhold $1 billion in US aid to Ukraine until they fired the prosecutor investigating his son Hunter Biden for his corrupt business dealings with Burisma.

First Republican Presidential Debate Tonight

I am excited to see how well Vivek performs at the Republican presidential debate tonight against his neoconservative presidential challengers most notably former Vice President Mike Pence (R-Ukraine), former Governor Nikki Hailey (R-SC), former Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).

Recent Media Interviews

Newly added!—May 18th-Comprehensive Interview with EMP survival expert Jonathan Hollerman on the EMP Task Force Youtube channel to discuss a wide range of topics. Here is the link to the interview.

July 31st—Interview with Brannon Howse on his Worldview Weekend Broadcast Network to discuss the Vivek Ramaswamy presidential campaign, Chinese biological warfare labs in California and a Chinese cyber time bomb planted in the electronic networks of all US military bases. Here is the link to the interview.

August 3rd—Securing America show on Real America’s Voice TV hosted by former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney discussing our new book “Catastrophe Now—America’s Last Chance to Prevent an EMP Apocalypse.” Here is the link to the interview.

August 9th—Interview on Dialogue Works Podcast hosted by Nima Rostami Alkhorshid to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine diplomatically with a negotiated peace. Here is a link to the interview.

August 14th—Interview with Brannon Howse on his Worldview Weekend Broadcast Network to discuss including reports of Chinese space lasers causing the tragic fire in Maui, the capabilities of our top secret space weapon system and reports of massive Ukrainian casualties in their ongoing summer counteroffensive. Here is the link to the interview.

August 16th—Going Underground show on GHAF TV hosted by Afshin Rattansi to discuss Biden’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and how to end it. This interview should be available later this month.

August 18th—Interview with Jonathan Hollerman on EMP Task Force Channel to discuss the EMP threat from the Sino-Russian alliance and the likely outcome of the war in Ukraine.

August 22nd—Interview with Carlos Carrillo on the Living Hope Esparanza Podcast discussing the chances of whether the war in Ukraine will escalate to World War III with Russia. Here is a link to the interview.

Upcoming Media Interviews

August 25th—Interview with former Polish Sejm Deputy Mateusz Piskorski to discuss the war in Ukraine and how to end it before it escalates to a full-scale war between Russia and NATO.

August 26th—Interview with Jon Twitchell on the Republic Broadcasting Network discussing the death of Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.

September 5th—Interview on the Chayse Leavitt Podcast to discuss the war in Ukraine and potential war with China over Taiwan.

September 14th—I will deliver a presentation in Logan, Utah to the Utah Citizens for the Constitution and Cache County Conservatives about what the US must do to prevent an unnecessary Third World War with the Sino-Russian alliance.

© David T. Pyne 2023

David T. Pyne, Esq. is a former U.S. Army combat arms and Headquarters staff officer, who was in charge of armaments cooperation with the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas from 2000-2003, with an M.A. in National Security Studies from Georgetown University. He currently serves as Deputy Director of National Operations for the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and as a member of the Committee on the Present Danger-China. He recently co-authored the best-selling new book, “Catastrophe Now--America’s Last Chance to Avoid an EMP Disaster." He also serves as the Editor of “The Real War” newsletter at dpyne.substack.com and as a contributor to “The National Interest”. Here is a link to his interview archive. He may be reached at emptaskforce.ut@gmail.com.