Former President Donald Trump has weighed in on the situation happening in Russia, describing the latest updates on his social media platform on Saturday as: “a big mess.”
The Russian military was briefly thrown into disarray after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of a private mercenary group, rebelled against Russia President Vladmir Putin on Friday, before Prigozhin announced a halt to the apparent mutiny. The brief rebellion would have been possibly the greatest challenge to Putin’s leadership in Russia in over two decades.
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“A big mess in Russia, but be careful what you wish for,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Next in may be far worse!”
The former president also wrote that President Joe Biden will address the situation of Russia in whatever way “President Xi of China wants him to do.” Trump claimed that Biden and the president’s son, Hunter Biden, “illegally took large amounts of money” from both Russia and China, as reporters have recently been asking the White House about a WhatsApp message Hunter Biden reportedly sent in 2017 to Henry Zhao, the group chairman of China’s Harvest Fund Management; the message Hunter Biden sent mentions his father in connection to a six-figure business deal.
Trump continued to claim that China is currently “the bigger threat,” and wants to purchase “large portions of largely unpopulated Russian land.” Trump went on to describe the potential infighting in Russia as an “unthinkable opportunity” for China.
“This is China’s heretofore unthinkable opportunity, much bigger than Taiwan, which to President Xi, can wait!” Trump wrote.
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Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, a Putin client, has taken credit for the apparent breakthrough of the potential rebellion, as the Belarusian regime announced that he had spoken to Putin and Prigozhin and secured “an absolutely profitable” deal to end the crisis.
“Negotiations continued throughout the day. As a result, they came to agreements on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloody massacre on the territory of Russia,” Lukashenko’s press service announced, per a Ukrainian Pravda translation. “At the moment, there is an absolutely profitable and acceptable option on the table for resolving the situation, with security guarantees for Wagner PMC fighters.”
