Retired Col. Douglas Macgregor says there’s an old expression in the Army about battlefields, or anything: “The first report is always wrong.”

Macgregor tells London Real’s Brian Rose this was certainly the case in what the media reported was a coup to remove Vladimir Putin by the Wagner Group. “It was not a coup, it was not an uprising, it was not a rebellion,” he says.

MacGregor says that in Wagner leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, we were dealing with someone who is Russia’s answer to reality TV in the United States. He says it was never about Putin, but about the Wagner Group’s frustration with the Ukrainian conflict and ending it quickly. Here’s more.