I understand he didn’t have support from the other Wagner commanders, either.
As I understand it, the Wagner “officers” are regular Russian military (probably with heavy FSB backgrounds) who have families inside Russia.
Wagner is not that big and certainly not big enough to assault Moscow. I am still wondering if this is some kind of false flag operation to root out dissidents and expose something Putin wants exposed. Just my .02.
I could easily see our elite intelligence types falling for this and sending money.
However, assuming that this is authentic the main gripe of the Chef seems to be that Russia was not fighting the war viciously enough and he disagreed with the strategy of the Kremlin which does not seem focused on total destruction even as that is effectively the result.
Hard to cheer the man if that is true. He is probably the biggest hardliner in Putin’s inner circle so the West would do well to think twice about supporting him.