PRIGOZHIN’S FOLLY

The Russian ‘revolt’ that wasn’t strengthens Putin’s hand

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wagner Group, in a video he released last weekend.

The Biden administration had a glorious few days last weekend. The ongoing disaster in Ukraine slipped from the headlines to be replaced by the “revolt,” as a New York Times headline put it, of Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the mercenary Wagner Group. 

The focus sli…