Upshot Unfolding: Latin American Leaders Praise Putin for Heroically Repelling Coup Attempt

As soon as I heard the results were in and Prigozhin was surrendering, I thought that Putin’s image in the whole thing was reversed. It threatened to make him look really weak, even if it was resolved, if it took a long time to resolve. But that it was quickly resolved actually made him look stronger.

I don’t know yet if that is true. We’ll have to wait and see.

But people are praising him.

RT:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has managed to thwart a civil war in his country, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro said on Saturday, hours after PMC Wagner chief Evgeny Prigozhin agreed to stand down and cease his insurrection.

Speaking at an event commemorating the Day of the Bolivarian Army, Maduro reiterated that Caracas stands in solidarity with Putin. The Russian leader “faced an attempted betrayal and civil war, and at this time he is victorious with Russia at peace,” the president said.

“From Venezuela, all our support for President Vladimir Putin, Venezuela’s brother,” he added.

His remarks came after the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, speaking on behalf of Maduro, “strongly condemned” the Wagner Group and its leader Evgeny Prigozhin following their efforts to “promote an armed insurrection… through methods of terrorists.”

Meanwhile, Cuba, another country in the region that has had long-established friendly relations with Moscow, also voiced support for Putin. President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez said both the Caribbean country and its people expressed their solidarity with the Russian leader “in the face of attempts to provoke an armed rebellion.”

“We are fully convinced that unity and constitutional order will prevail,” he added.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra also stepped in, stating his support and solidarity with Putin.

This is good.

Presumably, good words will come in from everyone on Team Freedom.

I just want to hear that some Africans called him and played the Welcome Back, Kotter theme song.

Putin is still my hero.

History should remember him very well.