Cactus Jack wrote:It's more likely we're seeing an erosion of Putin's power.
There are rumours that apart from his troubles in Ukraine Vladimir Putin has been seriously ill for some time. A quick victory in Ukraine would have been enough for him to stabilise his power base and give him time to concentrate on creating and orderly succession - that's a luxury he no longer has.
Russia is now weaker than it was a week ago.
Russian Storm Assault Unit have called Prighozin a coward and said they would have followed him and Wagner into Moscow.
The Rostov on Don armed forces, including the airfield, didn’t lift s finger against him.
So too the garrisons of two more cities along the M4 to Moscow.
He’d have succeeded, with little or no resistance.
It’s a shame he turned back, Russians are fed up with the Putin regime.
Hitler said about Russia something along the lines of “all you have to do is kick the door in and the whole rotten edifice will come crashing down.”
Prighozin had the door(s) held wide open for him by Russians, military and civilians.
There is clearly massive discontent with the special military operation, and now it’s out in the open.
In WW1, fed up with war, Russian troops simply stopped fighting, withdrew and marched home.
They’ll be well aware of that, and the ease with which Prighozin had Moscow at his mercy.
I’m wondering what will happen now, the general staff were ignored when Prighozin marched into Russia.
Add the Russian Freedom Fighters to the equation and it could all get very intetesting.
