The owner of PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, called Dmitry Medvedev's forecasts for 2023 "erotic fantasies". This is how he responded to a journalist's request for comment:
“Yes, I got acquainted with the“ forecasts ”and I can’t comment on erotic fantasies in any way. Of course, any fantasy has its place. But it seems to me that the Strugatsky brothers understand this better than I do.”
On December 26, Medvedev published ten forecasts for the next year, they looked like this:
- An increase in oil prices to $150 per barrel and gas prices to $5,000 per 1,000 cubic meters. m.
- Britain's return to the European Union.
- The collapse of the European Union after the return of the UK and the abolition of the euro as the currency of the former EU.
- The capture by Poland and Hungary of the western regions of the former Ukraine.
- The creation of the Fourth Reich on the basis of Germany and the satellites that joined it (Poland, the Baltic countries, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, the Kyiv Republic, and other outcasts).
- War between France and the Fourth Reich. Partition of Europe, including a new partition of Poland.
- Separation of Northern Ireland from the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and accession to the Republic of Ireland.
- American Civil War, separation of California and Texas into independent states. Creation of the union state of Texas and Mexico. The subsequent victory of Elon Musk during the US presidential election in some of the states assigned to the Republicans after the civil war.
- Transfer of all major stock exchanges and financial activity from the USA and Europe to Asia.
- The collapse of the Bretton Woods financial system, including the collapse of the IMF and the World Bank. Rejection of the euro and the dollar as world reserve currencies. The return of the gold standard. Transition to the active use of digital fiat currencies.
“Happy New Year to you, Anglo-Saxon friends and their joyfully grunting gilts!”, he concluded his analytics.
For Prigozhin, this is far from the first scandal with government officials in the public field; the other day, he provoked another round of conflict with the Ministry of Defense. Prigozhin's mercenaries from the Wagner PMC recorded a video message to the head of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, demanding that they be given shells. In the video, they call Gerasimov “f*ck” and “f*cking hell.” Prigogine confirmed the authenticity of the video and commented: “When you sit in a warm office, the problems of the front line are hard to hear. And when you pull out the bodies of your comrades every day and see them for the last time, then ammunition is very necessary. And I want everyone to move and at least somehow think about what it’s like for them on the front line.”
Prior to this, Prigozhin supported the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in attacks on Colonel General Alexander Lapin, who commanded the Central Military District. Kadyrov blamed Lapin for the failures of the Russian army, in particular, the loss of Liman. After criticism from Prigozhin and Kadyrov, Lapin was removed from his post.
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