You only have one chance at toppling the tyrant. That’s an adage tested over the centuries.
Mutiny is a life-or-death business. Failure usually triggers swift retribution. It’s the would-be insurrectionist’s head that instead goes on the chopping block.
For President Vladimir Putin to grant the treasonous Yevgeny Prigozhin immunity from prosecution, safe passage to exile in Belarus, and an On Golden Pond retirement, is unusual, to say the least.
Prigozhin is a particularly savage rebel and may well be certifiably insane. Putin, his erstwhile ally