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I don’t think so - it made him look incredibly weak. Prigozhin getting as far as he did is just awful for him. That he had to negotiate at all. His speech yesterday was just a nothing burger - he didn’t even name Prigozhin, just alluded to him.
Honestly he is the person that lost the most here - Prigozhin is still alive, Wagner seemingly still kicking too, no charges and it got negotiated by Lukaschenko of all people.
His strongman image is over and things will def come crumbling for him now.
I am open to entertain the idea but I fail to see what would his play be - Prigozhins reasons are very clear as he stated them before and after the coup
He was tried of putting his best men and friends in body bags, being stuck in Bakhmut and the people above him in the pecking order, will he succeed remains to be seen but his reasons are understood
Prigozhin isn’t stupid - I doubt he would have stopped without a good reason. They would have taken moscow if they went for it. My personal theory is that there was a palace revolution that we’re not privvy to.
Nothing about this, with the information that we have makes sense tbh. Only reason he’d stop is if he was certain he wouldn’t have been suicided. That certainly indicates a shift of power in Kremlin but as to what actually happened we can only speculate. I think it’s telling we didn’t hear Putin have an adress yet.
What if the coup was actually successful and there will be a power transfer? Nobody half asses a coup and lives to tell the tale