A fascinating insight by Anatole Lieven at Responsible Statecraft on the Prigozhin Wagner/Putin relationship. Maybe the west should be careful what they wish for if regime change is indeed their hope.
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/05/31/has-a-succession-struggle-begun-in-russia/
And if the choice of successor to Putin really becomes that between President Prigozhin and President Patrushev, would either of these be any improvement on Putin himself? As an old Russian joke about the difference between an optimist and a pessimist should remind us, however bad things are in Russia, they can always get worse.
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