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Exceptionally frail, and the fact he had to turn, it seems, to the belarusian president aleksandr lukashenko. a man he considers to be a subordinate, order around as a lesser ally to come in and engineer this sort of compromise, that gets prigoshin to stand down, that, in itself, humiliating. i think a lot of the time we like to feel that there's some sort of evidence behind the chaos in russia or the russian state is somehow in control of all the strings controlling a marionette on its stage, i think what we've seen here is a real sign of splits in the elite we've known for a while that spill...

Operationally we know. we've known from the beginning of this ridiculous endeavor by putin that the russian military is not all that it's cracked up to be. logistics. battlefield, you know, operations. air power. i mean, a lot of the things that many of us assumed this former superpower really had ability to do they showed quickly they didn't. they had to import a mercenary force to come fight in some of the most important frontline areas. they're getting training and weapons from the iranians. i mean, as opposed to the other way around, what you would have seen 20 or 30 years ago. so you can ...

Torturing a syrian prisoner with a sledgehammer and executing a wagner fighter who had defected in the same way. >> he used sledge hammers to maim and kill people. so he understands the value, the propaganda value of coming across as a brutal, almost uncivilized kind of person. that's another kind of power that i think the russian population certainly at least fears, and in some cases, almosts. >> one analyst says no matter how this high-stakes drama turns out in the end, at the very least, yevgeny prigozhin has damaged vladimir putin by openly telling the ukraine people that the ukraine war w...

Africa's lucrative international resources. and it's looking to get things in its pocket on votes of things that russia really cares about like syria and crimea. but mali, it will be interesting to see how it plays out because this is really the first time in africa we've seen a potential wagner, potential russian presence, really going toe to toe with potential western forces in the country. france has said a wagner presence there not compatible with its forces, so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. >> thank you. that was a real fascinating report from a place we don't know eno...

Intentionally put a stick in the eye of the west, but i think they're there with their own goals. it's expanding russia's influence in the continent. it's projecting great power and looking to get access to africa's lucrative international resources. it's getting those countries in its pocket on votes and things like russia really cares about like syria and crimea. but mali, it will be interesting to see how it plays out because this is really the first time in africa we've seen a potential wagner, potential russian presence, really going toe to toe with the presence of western forces in the c...