“Prigo would have captured the rest of Donetsk if Shoigu and Gerasimov gave him the ammo he wanted. Instead, Putin blew him to bits.”
It seems politics and loyalty were far more valuable to Putin then winning the war. Putin is in a trap. As long as the war goes on he can stay in power. But end the war and there will be a sharp recession as there was the world over after WWI and for most countries after WWII. That’s because they no longer can support the war economy and must convert back to the civilian economy. Due to the interest rate and the high wartime cost of labor, there is no civilian economy to revert to. Thus, end of war equals end of Putin. If someone else had taken over a year ago, they could blame everything on Putin and ask the world for help. Germany, at least, and probably some others would leap in with loans. (Most of which would disappear into oligarch’s pockets.)
Yep. But in order for that to happen, Putin will have to do something about the corruption in the Russian military.
Putin would have to replace all of his generals and replace them with Prigozhin's guys.
Putin was afraid that Prigozhin was going to become too powerful.
So he'll rather deal with corrupt Generals even though they suck.
Putin is weak
Peace by Easter! - mucus
You Putin has minus 8 days! - maximum mucus
Putin’s botched invasion of Ukraine is over. - mucus, March 2025
