Wow, Prigozhin continued to stick the knife in here. Mark Antony would be proud. Direct appeals to Russian people and stating what central line will not: the SMO is a failure and people have been thrown into a meat grinder.
https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1673509067640434689?s=20
A reminder of last year's thread by @kamilkazani on "Jubilee" - financial and social debts are being cashed in and power structures are in flux.
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1503430216554795014
"The same is true for the loans of power. During the Jubilee it's better to be a power debtor, to have some direct control over valuable resources which give you leverage than to be a power creditor. So the crisis inverts the normal relations between the courtiers and the barons
That goes on every level. Typically politicians and bureaucrats in any country will at least try to cash out their administrative leverage for monetary benefits and it's delusionary to expect otherwise. "
And finally one more connection:
https://www.pingthread.com/thread/1672399934471954433
"We are all used to thinking of the FSB as of the modern Russian nobility. But if you look at the ministerial or gubernatorial appointees of the last decade, you will notice a rapidly rising share of the FSO officers
Putin's personal bodyguards becoming governors basically"
I think one of the side comments in that thread was that the local governors are very much hated. Associated with the failure of Putin and the damage the SMO has caused to Russia, and with the ambivalence towards the coup attempt from soldiers, citizens and propagandists alike, they're in danger.
This is only just getting started.