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GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Putin's Attempt to Preserve Wagner

I don't think he ever intended to take power to stage a coup that's why I call it a mutiny, because he wouldn't know what to do how to run Russia. This was all about throwing a tantrum tantrum basically and trying to pressure Shoyu and Garassimo of the Minister of Defense into giving him what he wants. And one reason that it really wasn't able to be stopped was that when you turn away from Ukraine and head towards Moscow. There isn't a whole lot in the way in the Russian military far as it's mostly deployed to fight the war. They were able to bring down at least one helicopter with five on board. Which I think tells

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