In March 2023, the Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor published a two-part analysis of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner PMC operations inside Russia under the title: “Going Beyond Mercenaries: Is Prigozhin Preparing for a Power Struggle in Russia?”
The piece was written by Jamestown Foundation Senior Fellow Sergey Sukhankin who claims that he is one of the few real “experts” on Wagner PMC in the West, at least since his 2018 profile of Prigozhin’s operations in Syria in 2018. Whether or not Sukhankin’s March analysis is accurate in any way, it demonstrates how closely this Anglo-American intelligence nest of Zbigniew Brzezinski progeny have been following Prigozhin as a potential flank for their notorious “Breakup Russia” schemes. Sukhankin identified several shifts in recent months in the Wagner operation as indications of potential preparation for a power struggle, including:
• that Prigozhin had been strengthening the Wagner Group’s ties “with influential and potentially useful figures within Russian economic and political circles";
• the Wagner group widened the geographic scope of its recruiting, with recruitment centers set up in no fewer than 42 Russian cities. He cited Siberia as an example of particular activity, reporting that “social advertisements calling on locals to join the Wagner Group are now being publicly advertised in all major Siberian cities” (a fact of some interest given his fellow Jamestown Foundation “expert” Paul Goble’s obsessive assertions that Siberia will be the first region in Russia to declare independence from Moscow).
