Distrust is only increasing, and that will bring more infighting. The beast in and around the Kremlin will turn against itself and eventually a new leader will consolidate power.
ReutersThe highly likely death of Yevgeny Prigozhin—the result of an assassination plot, most likely a bomb aboard the plane he was traveling on, US officials told the Wall Street Journal—is the latest event on the path to a post-Putin Russia. Putin entered the last phase of his political life when he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The invasion was doomed because of his hubris, his grandiose neo-imperialism fed by yes-men intelligence and military officers who let