There is a rumour going around - with all the reliability that you can place in rumors- that Prigozhin and whover is working with him just clipped the CIA for $6B now unaccounted for Pentagon funds as payment to stage this farce. Was Putin in on it?
Whatever it was, it was one hell of a caper, and there are probably so many twists and side plots to this that there is no genuine truth as to what was really going on.
Yep, some big paychecks all around.