The Pergosian Uprising and the Existential Threat to Wagner

I think that I do think that it was an act of desperation, but I don't know that it was about falling out of favor so much as it was this sense of an existential struggle and an existential threat to Wagner. The Ministry of Defense had set in mid-June a deadline of July 1 for all Wagner troops to sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense. That was the piece that crossed the line for Pergosian. And certainly there was high cost and he miscalculated. He went too far in what he did. But to some extent, he did reach that objective on Saturday.