Ahead of the mutiny, steps were taken to boost security at the Kremlin, but Putin was uncertain how to respond to a warlord critical to many global operations.
Was that the point of my comparison, or was it simply to illustrate that politics is weird and the hand of justice slow?
There are many explanations for why Prigozhin is still free that aren’t “the entire thing was fiction.” The OP contains one, in fact, which is that Putin is hedged in by his own system of cronyism.
Was that the point of my comparison, or was it simply to illustrate that politics is weird and the hand of justice slow?
There are many explanations for why Prigozhin is still free that aren’t “the entire thing was fiction.” The OP contains one, in fact, which is that Putin is hedged in by his own system of cronyism.