It will take time to understand the impact and implications of Wagner’s boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s attempted coup in Russia, which was shattered by a last-minute compromise involving tanks on the outskirts of Moscow and a country just one step away from civil war. was stopped. Paolo Mieli intervenes at In onda, on La7, to comment on a day that had the world in suspense. “Let’s make it clear how that day began, when Prigozhin said that the reasons for Russia’s aggression against Ukraine were all lies, that it was not true that NATO attacked, and that it was not true that Ukrainians bombed Donbass,” says the former director of Corriere della Sera.
In fact, the Wagner group uprising was preceded by another attack by its leader, who questioned Vladimir Putin’s propaganda on the war in Ukraine. That was the ultimate breaking point, but why take the fight to this level? Prigozhin said the story of “denazification of Ukraine is nonsense, I read those words over and over again,” says journalist and historian Köder in the West. There is a second point that, according to Mieli, does not work. In the now famous speech he gave in response to the mercenary leader, Putin “recalls 1917, the year of the two revolutions, the February and October revolutions. And what does that have to do with it? Why did he do that.” ?” asks the historian. In short, much is unclear in this story and the next few hours and days will be crucial.
