1. Both gangs saw their respective leader totally "BAIL"...cave and capitulate. The fear and loyalty of/to the leader is no more. Challengers to each will quickly opportunistically seize upon the exposed weakness. All now see the Emperor(s) has/have no clothes. Saturday was a beginning not an end to this "get your popcorn" drama.
2. Prigozhin dead man walking. If you go for the king, you better kill the king. You falter, you die. The over under at 90 days. Enough time for Putin to not create more immediate chaos/instability and time enough to parasitically maximize/optimize personal "benefit siphoning" Prigozhin public guilt admissions, public groveling and kissing Putin's ass. Note: Maybe a race now to see by who. Putin or Wagner, the latter who now likely sees a double cross by the "save his ass deal making" cowardly leader.
3. Massive Putin purge of military, government and civilian elites (more "window jumping" news in the weeks to come)...and becoming even more paranoid...not unlike Hitler after the July 20, 1944 Valkyrie attempt on his life.
4. The Ukraine War will soon end vis-a-vis combo of Ukrainian counter offensive military advances, Wagner disintegration and Putin now needing to shore up and consolidate his collapsing power base (withdrawing Russian forces in Ukraine to Moscow region, all accelerating a "no negotiation" total Russian withdrawal.
5. As soon as the last Russian leaves Donbas/Crimea, the EU and NATO immediately each declare Ukraine a member and flood Ukraine with NATO infrastructure
...the paperwork already done.
6. Part b of 5. above, in a final "FU Vlad" act of defiance, Zelensky orders the Kerch Bridge, Putin's baby, massively blown and completely destroyed, and never again useable as an attack axis into Crimea.
Perhaps what we've recent seen is a Shakespearean sequel...To Bail or Not to Bail, That is the (Bully) Question.
Or better yet, lab results show when bullies find themselves in a game of chicken with each other,
...................BULLIES BAIL.
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