Prigozhin and: Budanov, Kapustin 'White Rex', Khodorkovsky, Navalnites, Azovite (FSB agent?) Korotktikh, Rusich's Milchakov and dead puppies. Emelyan Pugachev and Timothy McVeigh. Part I.
It's kind of remarkable that even during the war, Putin's regime didn't manage to fully consolidate the elite around him. He's stabilised it against the sanctions and built up military Keynesianism. But the whole Prigozhin and rogue elites thing is reminiscent of the early days of the Donbass war (at least according to Arutunyan in her Hybrid Warriors book).
I think it may just has to do with convenience given how much Wagner is involved in Battle of Bakhmut.
In addition, people or news editors tend to have “our side good” mentality. It applies the same for both Russian and Ukrainian, so no matter what Wagner says, as long as they aren’t doing things off the line, they would be considered “one of us”
This is irrelevant but kinda similar to “anti-imperialist” Japanese volunteer fighting for Donbas separatists, glorified by Patrick Lancaster, despite being a literal Japanese imperialist who aces not seeing that Shanghai wast controlled by Japan.
It's kind of remarkable that even during the war, Putin's regime didn't manage to fully consolidate the elite around him. He's stabilised it against the sanctions and built up military Keynesianism. But the whole Prigozhin and rogue elites thing is reminiscent of the early days of the Donbass war (at least according to Arutunyan in her Hybrid Warriors book).
I think it may just has to do with convenience given how much Wagner is involved in Battle of Bakhmut.
In addition, people or news editors tend to have “our side good” mentality. It applies the same for both Russian and Ukrainian, so no matter what Wagner says, as long as they aren’t doing things off the line, they would be considered “one of us”
This is irrelevant but kinda similar to “anti-imperialist” Japanese volunteer fighting for Donbas separatists, glorified by Patrick Lancaster, despite being a literal Japanese imperialist who aces not seeing that Shanghai wast controlled by Japan.