“After Prigozhin was strongly and almost publicly grounded, he needed to somehow establish himself before the public. Neither the authorities nor the military like Strelkov; there is no one to truly stand up for him, but it is possible to show conditionally who the dad is here. It’s no longer possible to blame Gerasimov (they’ve already brought it up to the fighters – there’s no need to wait for amateur performances, I assure you), it’s also not particularly possible to blame the generals in the Duma, and you can’t simply remain silent right now even more. It would look like he was gagged.
A public show of force was planned. But in reality, verbal diarrhea happened, everything did not go according to plan. They wanted to drag Strelkov into Wagner, and then show everyone what it means to clash with Wagner, even in words. And in the end, Strelkov’s friend Polynkov publicly insulted Prigozhin…
As a result, the story with Strelkov turned out to be a big disadvantage for Prigozhin. Strelkov was left with what he was with. But if earlier there was confidence that such disputes with Wagner and Prigozhin personally were a finita la comedy, even for a general, even for a minister, now… Prigogine himself is destroying the “legend of the terrible and terrible Wagner,” which he so diligently built.”
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