The coup that wasn’t: Prigozhin had the world on edge, what happens next?

WHEN PUTSCH CAME TO SHOVE: It ended as suddenly as it began. For months, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary army, had been railing against the generals in the Russian Defense Ministry, accusing them of incompetence and using his convict army as cannon fodder in Ukraine. A decree that his soldiers would have to join Russia’s regular army and a subsequent air attack on his encampment in Ukraine, which Prigozhin blamed on the Defense Ministry, triggered an angry rant Friday on his Telegram channel and the declaration of a “March for Justice” in which he threatened to take his 25,000-strong army to Moscow. Read the full story here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/the-coup-that-wasnt-prigozhin-had-the-world-on-edge-what-happens-next Check out our website: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/