Alexander Mercouris
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Desperate West Spreads Russian Coup Story; Economy Rebounds Konstantinovka Encircled; Hormuz Crisis
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1:16:03Now PlayingDesperate West Spreads Russian Coup Story; Economy Rebounds Konstantinovka Encircled; Hormuz Crisis
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A European intelligence report, almost certainly British in origin, has been leaked to CNN and the Financial Times, claiming the Kremlin is gripped by paranoia, that Putin is hiding in bunkers, and that former Defense Minister Shoygu is plotting a coup: and Alexander Mercouris of The Duran dismantles every claim piece by piece, showing that what little truth exists in the report describes security measures in place for years, while the coup narrative is, in his words, utterly fantastic. More revealing than the report itself is what CNN buries in its final paragraph an extraordinary admission that the West's sole remaining strategy to defeat Russia is to wait, and hope, for an internal collapse, a damning concession that four years of sanctions, proxy war, and narrative manipulation have achieved nothing. Meanwhile, on the ground in Donbass, Constantinovka is being encircled with a cauldron forming around trapped Ukrainian forces, the Russian economy is rebounding sharply from a brief first-quarter dip, and the Hormuz standoff continues to drain American military stockpiles and distract Washington from Europe. The collective West, as Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris have argued since 2022, set out to trigger regime change in Moscow and is now reduced to praying it still happens. Is this the most honest the Western establishment has ever been about how badly this has all gone wrong?
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