“I think he can survive this. But he is much weaker today than he was just 24 hours ago,' former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul says on President Putin.
veneer besmirched by the consequences of his own war in Ukraine and two decades of a divide and rule approach, it’s unclear what’s next for Putin.
“I don’t think he’s mortally weakened,” said McFaul, also a former Obama adviser who specialized in Russia. “I think he can survive this. But he is much weaker today than he was just 24 hours ago.”Stringer / AFP via Getty ImagesThis is new ground for Putin’s Russia, until now only troubled by the occasional unarmed protest swiftly crushed by police.
Prigozhin called it a “rebellion” against Russia’s defense ministry, led by his rival Sergei Shoigu. The mercenary chief was careful not to criticize Putin, but his advance was a clear threat to the president, who denounced it as such and vowed to “neutralize” the uprising. But this maverick act of revolt from one of Putin’s former close allies has presented Russians with an alternative narrative for the war in Ukraine and a glimpse at the weakness of the state.
With such a schism exposed at the heart of the world’s most well-stocked nuclear power, the West will also be trying to work out how to respond to this new era of Russian instability. Before Prigozhin launched his revolt, he was believed to have few reliable allies in the halls of the Kremlin. Members of the Russian government and elite made appeals throughout the day, urging Wagner forces to lay down their arms and turn in Prigozhin to the authorities.
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