Remember the 'Russia Hoax' ?

Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin has admitted to interfering in US elections on the eve of a midterm vote in which Republicans will seek to take control of Congress and state-wide offices across the country.

“Gentlemen, we interfered, we are interfering and we will interfere, carefully, precisely, surgically and the way we do it, the way we can."

Prigozhin was responding to a request to comment on a recent Bloomberg report saying Russia was interfering in Tuesday’s US midterm elections.

The US social media analysis firm Graphika last week said that suspected Russian operatives have used far-right media platforms to criticise Democratic candidates in the lead-up to the midterm elections in a number of US states, including Georgia, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Prigozhin, together with a dozen other Russian nationals and three Russian companies was indicted in 2018 as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections.

Prigozhin was charged with inciting discord and dividing American public opinion ahead of the 2016 US presidential election, accusations Prigozhin, as well as the Kremlin, has previously vehemently denied.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/07/putin-ally-yevgeny-prigozhin-admits-interfering-in-us-elections

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RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M

@pianoplayingsteve 'could you give me some examples of things that were Russian misinfo and proof the Russians did it?'

Well there's the confession above in the question from the guy who was actually responsible for it. There's also the indictments from Mueller and the findings from the Senate Intelligence Committee report.

What more do you want ?

helenS · 36-40, F

@RodionRomanovitch That Russian guy is trying to intimidate you people, to scare you.
It's the usual Russian strategy. They [u]are[/u] nothing, they [u]have[/u] nothing, and they play the big guy with the big mouth.

pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M

@RodionRomanovitch could you explain the benefits to himself of him admitting to it to everyone?

RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M

@pianoplayingsteve No.

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RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M

@pianoplayingsteve The guy is the founder of the Wagner Group , now spearheading the Russian campaign in Ukraine. For years Putin had denied that Wagner had anything to do with the Russian State. Yesterday they opened a shiny new building in the heart of St.Petersburg.

Prigozhin had been highly critical of the Ukraine campaign and has criticised the military command. Now his forces are having the most success against the Ukranian counter offensive and he is being hailed as a saviour.

Some have interpreted his remarks today as a further burnishing of his credentials and a sign of his growing political influence within the Kremlin.

pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M

@RodionRomanovitch well as we know, any information that goes against your own views is a ‘conspiracy theory’ no matter how true, so it must be a conspiracy theory.

RodionRomanovitch · 56-60, M

@pianoplayingsteve What information have you given me that 'goes against my own view' ?

I try to explain things to you and fall back into nonsense.

Longleggedlady · 31-35, F

@RodionRomanovitch

pianoplayingsteve · 31-35, M

@RodionRomanovitch you haven’t given me any proof, all of you’ve given me is something that would be dismissed as some fringe crazy if it didn’t support a certain political narrative. There are also interviews with high ranking people talking about ritual human sacrifices and what not, is that conclusive proof of that too?

Longleggedlady · 31-35, F

@pianoplayingsteve
That is the picture that was used on the news in Europe there is nothing illegal about having a head office even the composer needs one.