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Mutiny Interrupted: Prigozhin Stands Down | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, Bill Whalen, and Dmitri Alperovitch| Hoover Institution

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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The Effect of Putin's Orders on the Security Services

I don't think the Russian military wanted to fire on Wagner. I think that for whatever reason, they chose not to follow Putin's orders. No one has made a major price in this mutiny and no one is paying the price here if it's being done by people in the military or us or anyone else. So what does this tell you about Putin's grip on power? For a while he can absolutely hang on. In fact, I think Putin is about to turn into his own worst nightmare, which is to have the same fate as his predecessor, Yeltsin,. He was still president Russia until he resigned but was basically a joke and ignored by everyone. The elites and clans

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