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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Ed Morrisey: The Beginning of the End for Putin?
Description: Call it the shortest and strangest challenge to Vladimir Putin’s power in his strongman regime. Yevgeny Prigozhin – a man elevated by Putin from caterer to warlord – was one day’s march from Moscow with some 25,000 battle-hardened mercenaries behind him. Putin, who has all of his army committed to a failing conquest of Ukraine, looked ripe for a fall. Only a last-minute deal brokered by Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko averted a civil war – for now. Despite accusing Prigozhin and his commanders of treason, Putin allowed them to leave Russia along with thousands of his soldiers. All of this makes...