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Isn't sort of the default a trial? Especially if the leader has an absolute power over the police and the courts?
by yreg 3y ago
Isn't sort of the default a trial? Especially if the leader has an absolute power over the police and the courts?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Especially if the leader has an absolute power over the police and the courts? He doesn’t. If he had, Prigozhin wouldn’t have gotten as far as he did. Putin needed to know that when he gave the kill order, it would be obeyed. The entire Russian state is in such embarrassing shambles that this isn’t an order he could confidently issue without serious concern that it would circle back on him. Hence the stab in the back; Moscow couldn’t survive a serious trial, a fact almost evidenced by the success of Wagner’s march.
- yreg 3y agoI don't see how MoD's inability to scramble enough units in the area to stop the march is related to level of Putin's grip over the judges and legislators.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Putin's grip over the judges and legislators Judges and legislators don’t keep dictators in power, armies do.