Is Evgeny Prigozhin capable of attempting to mount a coup against Putin?
“I think the King is but a man, as I am.” William Shakespeare
There appears to be mounting evidence that the head of the notorious Russian Wagner Private Military group, Evgeny Prigozhin, is angling for Putin’s place in the Kremlin.
His bombastic tirades, via video, against the Russian military leadership and their handling of the so-called Special Military Operation in Ukraine had already become commonplace during the brutal struggle to take the town of Bakhmut in the Donbass, just north of Donetsk.
Tirelessly he openly and venomously attacked Russia’s head of defence, Sergei Shoigu and his deputy Valery Gerasimov, accusing them of everything from incompetence to criminal negligence for their alleged failure to provide his Wagner troops with sufficient support and ammunition. Notably none of said tirades have met with any consequences for Putin’s former personal chef.
Now most recently, however — and for the first time — Prigozhin has taken Putin himself to task. During a long…
