Well, it appears that Putin and Prigozhin have come to a 'meeting of the minds" and the Wagner group troops marching on Moscow have halted about 200 miles out from the city. As of yet nobody besides the parties involved know exactly what the deal involves. Prigozhin has been calling for a shake up in the defense establishment that included the sacking of the Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff so it's possible that they'll be gone but who can say. He's also publicly said that the war was predicated on the falsehood that somehow The Ukraine was a NAZI state and was a mistake from the get - go. If he was just a regular Rooskie on the street any of this would have landed him in some awful labor camp or worse. Its still really possible, I think that it will be announced in the not too distant future that Prigozhin has been killed in a Ukrainian artillery bombardment or something which would solve Putin's problem but who knows about that either.
I suspect that one thing that is sure to come from this is a lot of pressure on old Vlad to make a deal on the Ukraine war that perhaps may include some sort of face saving fig leaf for Putin, but Zelenski has ben playing hard ball on that so he would have to be brought into line too.
Nothing would surprise me on this cluster fornication right now.
Its a real tough time to be a Russian soldier, I do know that for sure.
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