Eee gads.The private army of Yevgeny Prigozhin, which has fought as a Russian proxy all over the world, and which first made its appearance in the Russian grab of Crimea in 2014, rebelled earlier this week, took Rostov (to the apparent welcome of its residents), dashed north, and appeared to be well on its way to taking Moscow. Russian police were apparently debating whom to side with. Some Russian soldiers threw in with him. Seven Russia air force aircraft were shot down.
A nuclear arms facility surrendered without putting up a fight. . . (oh, oh).
And not it's all over, Prigozhin having stood down and agreed to go into exile in Belorussian (lucky them), and some of his troops receiving spots in the Russian Army as contract soldiers.
This doesn't come close to making sense.
Had he continued to advance, Putin would have fell. Russia might have descended into multi factional civil war (it's done it before).
Putin's enemies have a way of flying out hotel windows.
Prigozhin knows that.
This really doesn't add up at all.
In modern coups, you really don't make a deal like this. There's no modern precedent. As my history minded son reminded me, there are medieval ones, but that doesn't happen anymore.
This doesn't even happen in movies like The Wild Geese.
Once you strike against the king, you have to win.
What happened?
From an earlier era:
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