Wed Jun 28, 2023 – 12:07 pm EDTWed Jun 28, 2023 – 12:08 pm EDT
(Courageous Discourse) — On Saturday I read reports that Yevgeny Prigozhin – a prominent St. Petersburg restaurateur, oligarch, mercenary, and Wagner Group director – was leading a mutiny against his old friend, Vladimir Putin, and marching on Moscow like Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon in 49 B.C. and marching on Rome.
My first thought was that Prigozhin and his men had embarked on a Quixotic and theatrical adventure that would – for reasons known only to the Putin government – be tolerated to a certain point. Progozhin made a bunch of blustery remarks and Putin accused him of treason. But then, the next day it was reported that the charges were dropped and Wagner quit marching to Moscow. Prigozhin moved to Belarus and the Wagner soldiers headed back to Ukraine.
READ: Prigozhin’s failed coup shows Russia is hardly on the brink of collapse
My intuition that Prigozhin’s stunt was not the beginning of a Russian civil war was not shared by U.S. government and mainstream media commentators, who rushed to proclaim that the alleged mutiny was the beginning of the end
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