“Nopem they weren’t told to stand down.”
Oh, sure.
“The Russian military units are joining Prigozhin as they are fed up of the 16 month long war”
...and not a PEEP of complaints prior to the last 24 hours? Try again, please.
Well, there are channels with intercepted phonecalls indicating what seems to be widespread unhappiness with the Russian military, the war, and the government.
The idea of a “preference cascade” is that when opposition comes out in public, and is seen to succeed, all this private, personal conviction comes out in the open. Then things can change fast.
I saw this happen, before my eyes, in 1983. A funeral procession suddenly turned into millions of people in the streets.
Lots of complaints on Telegram and other channels