Next 24 hours will be decisive for Putin, - CNN
Russian President Vladimir Putin risks losing power, and the next 24 hours are crucial.
As Censor.NET informs, this is stated in a CNN article
The article notes: "The Russian president has faced the most serious threat to his power in all 23 years of ruling a nuclear state. And it is stunning to see how the appearance of total control that he has maintained all this time - the main advantage of his autocracy - crumbles overnight.
It was both inevitable and impossible. Inevitably, the mismanagement of the war meant that only a system as uniformly closed and impervious to criticism as the Kremlin could survive such a monstrous adventure.
And it is impossible, because Putin's critics simply disappear, or fall out of windows, or are brutally poisoned. However, now the fifth largest army in the world is faced with the fact that fratricide - turning weapons on one's fellow soldiers - is the only thing that can save the Moscow elite from collapse."
SNN emphasizes that Putin is so used to being considered a "master tactician" (at least in Russia - UP) that Evgeniy Prigozhin's first statements were seen as an attempt by the President of the Russian Federation to "keep his generals in suspense."
It is likely that Wagner's units had been planning this for some time. The excuse for the uprising appeared spontaneously - an alleged airstrike on the "Wagner" camp in the forest. Mercenary forces gathered very quickly and advanced to Rostov. This is difficult to do spontaneously in one day.
"Perhaps Prigozhin dreamed that he could push Putin to change the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. But Putin's address on Saturday morning destroyed this prospect. Now the Russian elite faces an existential choice - between the regime of the faltering president and the dark, mercenary Frankenstein that it created to do the dirty work, and who turned against his masters."
Ukraine will probably celebrate the catastrophic untimeliness of this rebellion. He will probably change the course of the war in favor of Kyiv. But uprisings rarely end in Russia – or elsewhere – with the results they sought to achieve. The overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II in Russia in 1917 turned into the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin, and then the Soviet Empire.
As this rare Jacobin drama of Russian human frailty plays out, improvement will not necessarily follow. Prigozhin may not win, and the "pillars" of the Kremlin may not collapse. But a weakened Putin can do irrational things to prove his strength."
However, Putin is unable to "accept the logic of defeat" on the fronts in Ukraine in the coming months.
At the same time, as the publication emphasizes, it is impossible to imagine that from this moment the Putin regime will ever return to its previous "heights" in terms of total control. And it is inevitable that more upheavals and changes lie ahead.
