Well I guess the 2 worst case scenarios are 1) Putin consolidates his power but at the expense of any trust he has for any followers and his own sanity and goes cuckoo-nuts with the nuke button or 2)… (View Post)

Yep, this fundamentally isn’t starting over a spat between personalities. It’s someone trying to draw the line under the Ukraine misadventure. That’s not suggesting Prigozhin is a hero or a nice man.… (View Post)

They’re 100% behind the leaders until they aren’t. Unless we see actual military efforts taking place to properly impede Wagner then no-one is resisting them currently. (View Post)

It feels like Prigozhin or a Wagner puppet would certainly continue the gangster state hyper-nationalist politics in Russia. But their aim might be consolidation for a few years. Freeze the front if … (View Post)

On a similar theme, I surely cannot be the only one who cut back on energy use in the winter, not because I couldn’t afford to pay (I am fortunate enough to be able to do so) but because it felt like… (View Post)