New Details on Wagner Coup — US Wanted Russia’s Collapse, Why It Failed
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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Putin's Decision to Call Out Putin
I think he was hoping that he could use this as a leverage point against Putin to say, okay, you want to curtail me, but you know, you can't curtail me. And then these other officials would have to sort of fade away and he would either be able to keep his position or I think have an enhanced position in terms of how the war was being waged. But part of why this ended the way it ended is because Progosion was acting on what seemed to be critiques and criticisms of some of the elements ofhow the war is being conducted. So I thinkPutin was both trying to contain the sort of military aspect of it, but also contain the potential political fallout that
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