“Blamed Ukraine.” Ok so now we know it was a political assassination by the Kremlin.
With that out of the way, I get this feeling that typically it’s a bad idea to kill your military leaders. I don’t know how the military works in Russia, but given that an oligarch was able to march his PMC to Moscow with no opposition makes me wonder if the Kremlin has any capacity for reasoning over reaction.
They’re kinda locked in on the “reign of terror” tech tree
The state holds the keys to power that grant it the monopoly on violence. In a democracy, those keys are pretty spread out, in an oligarchy, they’re less so.
Any one of the oligarchs could take over at basically any moment, and with shit hitting the fan the way it is, Putin can’t show weakness or own failure at all
“Blamed Ukraine.” Ok so now we know it was a political assassination by the Kremlin.
With that out of the way, I get this feeling that typically it’s a bad idea to kill your military leaders. I don’t know how the military works in Russia, but given that an oligarch was able to march his PMC to Moscow with no opposition makes me wonder if the Kremlin has any capacity for reasoning over reaction.
I’m betting it was to prevent another Prigozhin incident
They’re kinda locked in on the “reign of terror” tech tree
The state holds the keys to power that grant it the monopoly on violence. In a democracy, those keys are pretty spread out, in an oligarchy, they’re less so.
Any one of the oligarchs could take over at basically any moment, and with shit hitting the fan the way it is, Putin can’t show weakness or own failure at all