Putin went on television and gave this very stark warning, saying, anyone who's involved in this is going to be harshly punished. And in the end, of course, there was no punishment. Pragozin was allowed to go to Belarus under the steel, and the charges against his men were dropped. The fact that this does not fit into the narrative of how Putin really deals with his enemies immediately raises the issue of, well, is he actually as strong, or maybe as he thinks he is?
Moscow is quiet again after an armed insurrection in Russia over the weekend ended as quickly as it began. But the uprising has left President Vladimir Putin weakened in the eyes of many Kremlin watchers, including US and European officials. Bloomberg’s Flavia Krause-Jackson joins this episode to talk about what this unprecedented threat to Putin’s authority means for his hold on power. And how turmoil inside the Kremlin and at the top of the military could further complicate Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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