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Prigozhin’s Death: Yet Another US Delusion Bites the Dust
The idea that Yevgeny Prigozhin posed a plausible – or even desirable – alternative to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was always ludicrous. Prigozhin was catapulted high and fast by his willingness to fund and lead the Wagner Group of mercenaries which proved highly useful to the Russian government in the ferocious, long-drawn-out fighting over recent months in the city of Bakhmut.