My favorite commenter on foreign affairs - George Friedman - weighs in with an admission that he doesn’t know what is going on in Russia. Is Putin weakened? Are Prigozhin and Wagner really out of the picture? Was it basically a spat between Prigozhin and the Russian Army leadership? Is there a leadership vacuum at the top?
Friedman admits he doesn’t know. Maybe the Russians don’t know either. I wonder what the CIA’s moles in Russia are reporting to Langley? We won’t know that anytime soon, unless it benefits Biden’s handlers to reveal it.
As is so often the case, in 1939 Winston Churchill said it best. Russia is “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.”
