bus bus byzantine kabuki? yeah, and putin is certainly not going to be trusting him any time soon. mal malcolm nance, thanks, great to talk to you. my pleasure. the mercenaries have turned about. is it threat to putin over? and what does it mean to the war in ukraine? i will talk to a guest next live in the cnn newewsroom in a few minutes. communities and the people who live and work ththere grgrow and thrive. we re proud to call these places home too. they re where we put down roots, and where together, we work to help move
bitten off and putin. is on also. it s not just he s there. he s certainly the maximum leader. what are his intelligence people saying? his military? what is fascinating in the 400-mile run in russia, yeah, there were a couple helicoptering we heard about but there was no national guard action, no military blocks. and they were able to move back and forth. i think the regime, putin himself, realized that we need to get turn this thing around. because the way the narrative is going, it s not going to be good, and i think he was probably getting a lot of advise on this, though he doesn t normally listen to it. and we don t know where this is going to go. and last point, i m wary because prigozhin is a survivor. belarus, he s going to go there
putin rewards loyalty. he doesn t reward the behavior. putin led it run to a crisis point. and where prigozhin would take 25,000 well trained troops on the road and threaten putin s own troops, that it had gotten to that point, that prigozhin still has the upper hand. this is a guy who likes the limelight. he came out of the shadows in full last year. he has made a huge amount of money being putin s go-to guy overseas in africa and other parts of the world. allowing putin to extend a military arm overseas and have a level of deniability. prigozhin has been a lot to putin. it s hard to see that putin s not going to need more of that in the future somehow, and prigozhin is willing to give all
rus russia. before wagner turned aren t, he was called what happens next? what happens the day after? reporter: yeah, prigozhin s made a mockery out of putin s threats. prigozhin comes out looking like the real rough time. prigozhin is not looking like way the day after. and anyone who wants to have the day after, and thinking we re going to see all the dust settle and flig become clearer, i m not reading that situation at the moment. there is no doubt that the deal that prigozhin has done, the deal with the belarusian leader, the idea that it can be the weak man propped up by putin, he supposedly has a great
now, a year ago, we were saying the poor ukrainians, how long do they hold out against the russians? who knows, not long. the business of predicting what putin and the rugtsssians are gg to do is fraught with danger and the expectations, the russian society have after their leader and the leader is supposed to provide them first and foremost with stability and safety, and even though this was a russian marching on, this is prigozhin, and his group marching on moscow, that is instability, and not to mention the ukraine war, that prigozhin said, putin said it s not true. it s a lie. that that cognitive dissonance, and inability, if russians get access to that, it will cause problems. he may have lost the confidence