Pushed by Prigozhin, Putin remains the devil we know

Vladimir Putin may be a madman, but Yevgeny Prigozhin is a ruthless lunatic who was never advocating for a peaceful resolution to the war in Ukraine.

It does not take much imagination to ponder what would have happened if Wagner Group head Yevgeny Prigozhin had succeeded in ousting Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes Scott Taylor. Screenshot courtesy of CNN

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

July 3, 2023

OTTAWA—The war in Ukraine took a bizarre and alarming twist with the armed showdown between the Wagner Group mercenaries and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime. When the news first broke on June 24 that Wagner troops were driving on Moscow, western media outlets s...

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