Worth reading:
After nearly a year and a half of support for Ukraine, the U.S. now has a chance to shape the escalation cycle with Russia.
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s abortive putsch demonstrated the fragility of the Russian regime and the stress it now faces. And so for the U.S., there are two operative questions to consider. First, how can the U.S. pressure the Russian state as a whole through more intense military activity? Second, how can we exploit internal divisions within Russia, and between Russia and Belarus?...
“...Putin and his inner circle constructed this system by design. The intention was never to resurrect the full horror of the Stalin-era NKVD. Putin and his inner circle have not a scintilla of morality among them, yet they recognized the massive expense and risk that a wholesale security state would entail.”
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“After nearly a year and a half of support for Ukraine, the U.S. now has a chance to shape the escalation cycle with Russia.”
May it be so!
NOTE: “Most substantive details on the Prigozhin incident will remain classified for decades, or at least until there is enough of a thaw between Russia and the West to enable the open exchange of archival material from the current war. Yet the outlines are increasingly clear. Discounting the possibility of a Russian false-flag — not impossible but nevertheless extremely improbable — the incident demonstrates a deep degree of state erosion within Russia.”