This smells like a CIA op. Did our CIA pay off Wagner.
Didn’t the Pentagon just discover an extra unspent $6 billion or so in its Ukraine budget? Would Prigozhin switch sides (or pretend to do so) for a couple billion? And if Putin is somehow toppled, his replacement is likely to be a hardliner: many Russians, both highly-placed govt/military and civilians, are frustrated at Putin’s restraint. They’re itching to ratchet things up, including launching the long-threatened attacks on Nato “decision-makers” and “Anglo-Saxons.”
Anybody seen Victoria Nuland lately?