Jonah Goldberg: Wagner Group’s coup attempt may be over, but it shows a real crack in Putin’s power
Like many people, I was glued to the news for much of Saturday, watching what seemed, at least for a moment, to be the first stages of a coup d’état — and it still might be. The only thing we know for certain is that if this is the beginning of the end of Vladimir Putin’s rule, that story won’t begin with the mutinous mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin leading an armored column of troops, guns a-blazing, into Moscow.
The funniest” podcast — the best single source for daily coverage of the Ukraine war — described the “unprecedented coup against the Kremlin” at the top of a special Saturday episode, only for the panelists to commence debating which coups from Russian history served as the best precedent for the unfolding events in Russia.
