revolt retreat, an astonishing 24 hours in global history. russian president vladimir putin staves off the biggest threat ever to his quarter century leadership as his one-time ally yevgeny prigozhin abruptly calls off a rebellion as his marches closer to moscow. prigozhin has agreed to leave russia for belarus. the wagner insurrection revealed major cracks and put his armor at home, now the world watches to see how it will impact a 16-month war on ukraine. good morning, and welcome to a special edition of the sunday, show i m jonathan katie phang who you normally see at this hour as the weekend off. we start with a sobering realization, we may truly never know how close the nuclear armed nation of russia came to a full blown civil war. the toughest test ever, putin s presidency is over, for now after brokering a truce with belarus, wagner leader if ghani prigozhin, called off a just hours after his mercenaries took control of the military headquarters in south of russia.
that is a very bad sign for vladimir putin, that shows he is not just weak internally but yes, i think it is a signal to the rest of the, world if you are president xi jinping watching this, right now you make a big bet to double, down to support for many years vladimir putin as a partner in your opposition to the west, now that looks very problematic for president xi jinping. i think all around the world, people have to be nervous that putin is not in control, and maybe now will put more pressure on him to end this war, because the longer the war goes on in ukraine, the weaker putin becomes that home. and, ambassador, i m glad you brought up russia, you may have just answered this in your last answer, but i will ask this question anyway, does what happened over this weekend, over last 48 hours put pressure on chinese president xi to be more active, to get vladimir
really hard time over the last six months, they lost thousands and thousands of fighters. that is why the parallels to 1917 is so close, because the military disaster of the russian imperial army in the first world war, happened because of corruption in the military, bad, logistics and court morale. that is also what is happening on the frontlines to russian troops, and one of the things i will be looking for is whether or not this weakness, not just in russia s military, but in putin creates an opening for ukraine to fight their way back to recovery control of all their territory. senator chris coons, of delaware, as, always thank you very much for coming to the sunday show thank you, jonathan. and still to come, what is next for a wagner group mercenaries now that their leader is that abandoning his revolt for exile in belarus. we have the latest analysis with lieutenant general stephen way after the break.
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u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul had some strong words about putin s future. listen. i do not think it was a stunt, i think it was a maddening, i think you can survive, this but he is much weaker today, then he was just 24 hours ago. senator coons, do you agree, is putin weaker than he was 24 hours ago? absolutely. russia s political system is one where leader is going back to the stars were relied upon secret police, upon terrorizing their population, upon ruling with an iron fist. it was stunning to me that in his address to the nation, saturday, putin referenced the developments of 1917, every russian notice that after a military adventure in the first world war, it ended an absolute disaster in 1914, where the battle of we are nearly 70,000 russian soldiers were encircled, and killed or captured by the germans in just a few days.