This mutiny will haunt him.
, it is still not entirely clear what happened or why. But some inferences can be drawn with fair confidence.
First, Prigozhin has likely been swept into the dustbin of history , and largely by the exertions of his own broom handle. A former restaurant tycoon turned mercenary leader, Prigozhin was done in by some of his most famous traits—brazen imprudence, overweening self-confidence, and blithe gullibility toward his own P.R.
But then Prigozhin went a bridge too far. He said that the original rationale for invading Ukraine—to protect Russians in the Donbas region from genocide—was a lie. He accused Shoigu of propagating the lie, but everyone knew Putin had come up with the rationale. So Putin sided with Shoigu and accused Prigozhin of stabbing his country in the back. Prigozhin upped the ante, saying,Advertisement
The contest was on; it seemed like a duel to the death. Prigozhin seemed poised to wind up in a dungeon or worse—his Wagner Group, though 25,000 strong, seemed no match for the president’s entire national-security apparatus—unless he had plotted this move well ahead of time and recruited others to join his cause. Some figured hehave organized a large following, or else he wouldn’t have taken such a mad plunge to begin with.
, commander of the Russian air force, appeared on Russian media, urging Prigozhin and his men to end their rebellion.Some noted that Surovikin’s plea looked like a hostage video, and it turns out that was close to truth. As we now know, Surovikin has been arrested—in fact, the arrestthe video—for knowing about Prigozhin’s plot days ahead of time and, by some accounts, for conspiring in its fomenting.
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