{"id":1956112,"date":"2023-06-24T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-former-us-ambassador-to-moscow-says-wagner-rebellion-amounts-to-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2023-06-24T12:26:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T16:26:31","slug":"russia-coup-former-us-ambassador-to-moscow-says-wagner-rebellion-amounts-to-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-former-us-ambassador-to-moscow-says-wagner-rebellion-amounts-to-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-US envoy labels Wagner uprising in Russia as &#8216;civil war&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-coup-former-us-ambassador-to-moscow-says-wagner-rebellion-amounts-to-civil-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1956112&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Wagner Group&#8217;s Rebellion: A Civil War Against the Kremlin<\/h2>\n<p>The former United States Ambassador to Moscow, Michael McFaul, responded to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-former-us-ambassador-to-moscow-says-wagner-rebellion-amounts-to-civil-war\/\" title=\"Ex-US envoy labels Wagner uprising in Russia as 'civil war'.\">dramatic events unfolding<\/a> on Friday, declaring that the actions of the Wagner group amount to nothing short of a &#8220;civil war&#8221; against the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The fight is now on. This is now a civil war,&#8221; McFaul tweeted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The catalyst for this declaration was the rebellion led by mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who boldly led his troops out of Ukraine and into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-putins-plane-leaves-moscow-amid-armed-rebellion-within-russian-military\/\" title=\"Putin's plane departs Moscow amidst internal military uprising in Russia.\">key city south<\/a> of Moscow. This move poses the most significant threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s leadership in over two decades. Prigozhin&#8217;s revolt was fueled by his accusation that the Russian military had killed a substantial number of his men, vowing to &#8220;destroy&#8221; any resistance to their group.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the group of mercenaries marched to Rostov-on-Don, with Prigozhin releasing a video stating their intention to blockade the area until Russia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-us-vows-to-stay-in-close-coordination-with-allies-as-russian-military-rebellion-continues\/\" title=\"US pledges to maintain close alliance coordination amid ongoing Russian military rebellion.\">top military generals met<\/a> with them. However, they have since continued their advance into Russian territory, marching towards Moscow. In response, Russian military forces reportedly opened fire on the group, as Putin vowed to crush any rebellious mutiny against the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>The duration of this standoff remains uncertain, but one thing is clear: the revolt weakens Putin&#8217;s grip on the country, providing a crucial advantage to Ukrainian military officials as they strive to fend off a potential Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;No matter how it ends, Prigozhin&#8217;s activities in the last 24 hours have weakened Putin,&#8221; McFaul emphasized. &#8220;Anything that weakens Putin is good for Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Putin himself drew parallels between this rebellion and Russia&#8217;s own civil war in 1917, which erupted after the Bolsheviks overthrew Tsar Nicholas II during World War I. He described the attack as a similar blow to the nation, resulting in a war within the country and ultimately leading to the formation of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This was the same kind of blow that Russia felt in 1917 when the country entered World War I, but had victory stolen from it,&#8221; Putin reflected. &#8220;Intrigues, squabbles, politicking behind the backs of the army and the people turned out to be the greatest shock, the destruction of the army, the collapse of the state, the loss of vast territories, and in the end, the tragedy and civil war. Russians killed Russians, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-coup-heres-what-to-know-about-the-wagner-rebellion-against-the-russian-military\/\" title=\"Russia coup: Key facts about the Wagner rebellion\">brothers killed brothers<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the situation unfolds, the world watches with bated breath, aware of the potential consequences and the significant impact it may have on the region.<\/p>\n<h3>Read more:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>statement on Friday. He referred to the Wagner group&#8217;s staged rebellion against the Russian military as a &#8220;civil war&#8221; against the Kremlin, emphasizing that the battle has begun. McFaul, the former US Ambassador to Moscow from 2012 to 2014, made these remarks in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1956113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}