While analysts debate what Prigozhin’s failed coup means for the future of the Putin Regime and the war in Ukraine, political analyst Sergej Sumlenny, founder of the Berlin-based European Resilience Center, says that the Russian public’s strong support for Prigozhin speaks to a sinister truth: The Russian public identifies with a leader who is unabashed in his dependence on violence to resolve tough situations – even if that includes war crimes and human rights abuses.
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Rather than the near-coup being a harbinger of the end of the Putin Regime, it could be the sign of how dark things are soon to become.