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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  I think you're all missing the significance of this. 
 Remember that

Prigozhin was Putin's chef, who reported directly to Putin and no one else

It's Putin's shame Prigozhin turned traitor and no one else

Prigozhin was head of Wagner, who recruited extensively in prisons and in major cities

Those recruited mercs are well-trained and brutal (think sledgehammer)

Those 30-50K mercs (and their associates and families) are now wearily eyed by the FSB as potential liabilities

You think that's gonna last?  I don't.[/quote]
You’re overstating this. 
Mercenaries are only loyal to the source of their paychecks. [/quote]

I think the Wagner folks actually were more loyal to P than that.  He was one of them (brutal ex-con) and spoke to  them.  But o don’t know where that leads.  Having a lot of angry heavily armed and violent men with no leader is not great for any country.  I guess a bunch of them are in Byelorussia now?  I don’t see how FSB or anyone takes them out on any systematized way.

I guess it’s possible that Putin did not order the hit and it was like the tsar’s friends taking out Rasputin.  Or possible it was the first step in a coup — one would need to eliminate Pirozghin first certainly.  [/quote]

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