Why Belling's Take on Wagner Is Wrong

Yesterday, Belling told us that he has the answer(s) about the Wagner Group/Prigozhin "revolt."

Well, he doesn't, and one major item proves it:

...Prigozhin was sent out of Russia in custody and is being held incommunicado. Any communicating he’s doing will be to what Andrei Martyanov describes as “hard faced men.”...

So much for 'weak Putin' crapola.

Wauck found another item which antecedes the 'revolt.'  The WaPo ran a story based on the Pentagon papers leaked by the Air National Guardsman.  The story said that the Pentagon knew about the Wagner 'revolt' several weeks in advance.  Putin is no dummy; his people read the WaPo, too.  So if from no other sources, Putin knew something was coming. 

...Given what we know now about Prigozhin's rebellion - particularly that some 3/4 of Wagner refused to participate - it's likely Putin knew about the plot well in advance and, ever the judoka, allowed it to go forward for reasons of his own....

Why?

So he could humiliate Prigozhn in two ways:  1)  dragging him off to solitary in Belarus; and 2) offering Wagner troops the choice of signing up with the Russian military or going home, no questions asked.

But go ahead.  Convince yourselves that Putin is on his last legs, that the Russians hate him, that another 1917 is at hand.  That "thinking" did wonders for Prigozhin, ain'a?