The insurrection case against Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin will be closed, and he will move to Belarus, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on June 24.

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    1 year ago

    This entire thing has made Putin look weak as fuck.

    He had to cut a deal to stop the coup attempt.

    He’s also a strongman style dictator. Cutting a deal to end a rebellion that he promised to crush? No, his days are now numbered. This coup attempt failed, but it will not be the last coup attempt.

    When the perpetrators of a coup attempt are free to try again, they will. A lesson the US didn’t learn either.

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      @chaogomu Right:

      • Putin’s regime looks weak… to negotiate with a private company to avoid that their attack the capital of the country (a private company, not the NATO, not a bit terror organization) looks not really good.
      • The Russian army doesn’t seem to be able to defend the Russian territory from the incursion of an organized armed force (able to occupy in hours a town with more than one million inhabitants)
      • Wagner doesn’t look now as a company in which future stakeholders can trust, and trust is the base of the work of contractors.

      I think it is embarrassing for everyone involved.

      @LollerCorleone @entropicshart @endlessvoid