Putin is in a war that he can not win, this is his way out. This is as transparent as the fake drone attacks on the Kremlin. Putin got his pal Prigozhin to do a fake threat of civil war to divert attention away from the Ukraine war so that Putin has more important things to do like take care of mutineers on home turf. A deal is brokered by Alexander Lukashenko ( the president of Belarus / Putin puppet ) where Prigozhin gets pretty much immunity for be treasonous acts to Russia and then gets to live in Belarus with huge amounts of cash. The Wagner group is pretty much finished in the Ukraine war. Putin loses his ( Wagner group ) dirty deeds done cheap gang but he does not plan to stay any longer anyways. Putin is inviting every malcontent in Russia to come after him for top position because he has shown the people that mutineer's and traitors will not be kidnapped and sent to the gulag, but what other way does he have to get out of Ukraine?
Prigozhin and his Wagner group was on his way up to Moscow and got within a few hundred kilometers and then turned back? The Russian military did not challenge them on the way up or on the way back? Not one shot was fired? Sounds like fake news to me.
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