{"id":27889,"date":"2023-06-25T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=27889"},"modified":"2023-06-25T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:24:59","slug":"that-coup-was-a-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=27889","title":{"rendered":"That coup was a bust&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;less than a day after it started, the coup in Russia ended with whimper instead of a bang&#8230;the leader of the Wagner mercenaries agreed to call it off and leave Russia for Belarus&#8230;and I guess what he got from Putin was a promise to not murder him&#8230;but if I were him, I&#8217;d stay away from high windows since lots of oligarchs and generals have fallen out of them over the past few years&#8230;.I really do wonder what the whole thing was about? Was it just to show Putin&#8217;s weakness since Wagner got within 20km of Moscow before they stopped&#8230;and the Wagnerites shot down 5 helicopters, too, that Putin couldn&#8217;t afford to lose so why make a deal? I guess it&#8217;s just the inscrutable Russians that no one can figure out&#8230;I&#8217;ll follow up on this once someone gets the truth out there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;less than a day after it started, the coup in Russia ended with whimper instead of a bang&#8230;the leader of the Wagner mercenaries agreed to call it off and leave Russia for Belarus&#8230;and I guess what he got from Putin was a promise to not murder him&#8230;but if I were him, I&#8217;d stay away from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=27889\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That coup was a bust&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3702,1039],"class_list":["post-27889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-failed-coup","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27890,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27889\/revisions\/27890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}