For more than 24 hours, the Western media were carried away: they believed that Yevgueni Prigogine, at the head of the Wagner group, was going to overthrow Vladimir Putin. For the man had launched his floats and seemed determined to parade them in Moscow.
Rumor had it that Putin panicked and was about to leave the Kremlin. Rumor has it that power trembles before the cruel mercenaries.
mercenaries
Putin’s enemies rejoiced: the tyrant was about to fall. They didn’t wonder if his possible successor would be even worse than him, which seemed to be the case.
Then suddenly, history turned around, it turned around, along with Wagner’s tanks and troops. They returned to their barracks.
Apparently, the mercenary leader understood that his putsch would not work. He fled to Belarus. Putin comes out of this ordeal weakened, but still in place.
What to remember from this sequence?
First and foremost, that we must be wary of any form of media hype when we talk about the political life of a people whose psychology escapes us, whose culture is fundamentally foreign to us.
Then, that the “experts” are too often able to say one thing in the morning, and the opposite in the afternoon, with the same tone of certainty.
shades
Just as war and even politics are less familiar with truth than with propaganda. We tend to believe what we want to believe, regardless of the facts.
But we gain nothing by confining the world to ideological categories that reassure us more than they enlighten us.
Between absolute good and radical evil, there are hundreds of shades of lesser, worse, and even worse. Alas, the media forget to make these necessary nuances.