The really surprising thing to me is that none of the 'stans have done likewise. The 'stans are supplying most of Russia’s troops that aren’t criminals apparently. To the point where more than 80% of the males under 40 are now in Russia’s army. Like, most of their tax base and productive citizens. Prigozhin would do well to enlist their support. Interesting program recently on ABC RN about Trans-Nistria (part of Romania next to Ukraine) that was enlightening about the choices available to ex-soviet countries during this conflict. Prigozhin is clearly nearly as big a bastard as Putin, but appears to have the guns on his side for the moment. The abc live blog made the interesting point that Prigozhin took control of the Rostov airport ‘so that the planes would be shooting at Ukraine and not us’. Says a lot I think.
The really surprising thing to me is that none of the 'stans have done likewise. The 'stans are supplying most of Russia’s troops that aren’t criminals apparently. To the point where more than 80% of the males under 40 are now in Russia’s army. Like, most of their tax base and productive citizens. Prigozhin would do well to enlist their support. Interesting program recently on ABC RN about Trans-Nistria (part of Romania next to Ukraine) that was enlightening about the choices available to ex-soviet countries during this conflict. Prigozhin is clearly nearly as big a bastard as Putin, but appears to have the guns on his side for the moment. The abc live blog made the interesting point that Prigozhin took control of the Rostov airport ‘so that the planes would be shooting at Ukraine and not us’. Says a lot I think.
Prigozhin is def not a good guy.