in a country where they despise weakness. and even if prigozhin did not succeed, i think others will look at this and say, maybe there s a chance for me. and so i think the probability that something bad happens to putin in the future has increased exponentially because of this whole wagner rebellion. so, let s stay there. what happens next? if you think the probability that somebody else goes after him is high, what is going on in putin s mind? as you just said, he is obsessed with strength, and always has been. and this is the weakest he has ever looked. that s exactly right. and so he is in this terrible position we are the normal thing that a dictator will do if somebody has challenged them is to go on an almighty purge, and just take out everybody and everything that stands in his way. and so, the normal thing you would have expected here is that he would arrest prigozhin, bringing him to red square, set up a guillotine, put his head on the chopping block and cut
putin in the future has increased exponentially because of this whole wagner rebellion. so, let s stay there. so, what happens next? if you think the probability that somebody else goes after him is high, what is going on in putin s mind? as you just said, he is obsessed with strength, always has been. and this is the weakest he has ever looked. that s exactly right. and so he s in this terrible position where the normal thing that the dictator will do, if somebody has challenged them, is to go on an almighty purge and just take out everybody and everything that stands in his way. and so the normal thing you would have expected here is that he would arrest for grosjean, bring him to red square, put up, set up a guillotine, put his head on the chopping block encountered off. that s the kind of thing a dictator would do. but instead they didn t do that. they have, like, meetings with prigozhin at the kremlin. he has been allowed to go free.
prigozhin in that bizarre three-hour meeting in the kremlin with president putin just weeks after he had mounted that attempted rebellion against the russian leader. now he apparently is in belarus, according to this video, which while we can t confirm when it was shot, it is believed to have been sometime this week. and in the video, he tells his fighters who are now apparently in belarus, that essentially we re done with ukraine. what s happening on the front lines he calls a shame, and says we don t need to be part of that. so what are you going to do instead? he says they re going to train the belarus military to be the second strongest military in the world. interestingly, he doesn t say who he s referring to as the first most powerful military, presumably he means his home country of russia, but he says after that, we re going to embark on a new journey into africa, which is raising a lot of questions. we know the wagner group has been very active in africa in the central african
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