Whenever the enemy of a despot dies, especially under strange and unusual circumstances, the despot will express his sadness at the dearly departed’s passing. So Vladimir Putin dutifully expressed his condolences at the untimely death of Yevgeny Prigozhin in an “aviation tragedy.” (Putin’s words, not mine.)
It was a head scratcher — how a tough autocrat like Vladimir Putin could have been blindsided by last week’s near-coup of the Russian military. Especially since…
The drama may not be completely over in Russia, but the immediate threat of a coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group mercenary army is over….
UDATED BELOW. The Ukraine war has dragged on for over a year now, without the slam-dunk victory that Vladimir Putin thought was in the bag. Now it…
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