Be Wary of a Wounded Putin

It will be a long time, if ever, before we know the backstory to the Prigozhin mutiny, starting, perhaps, with an accurate answer to the question of why Prigozhin was not reined in when his questioning of the way the war in Ukraine was being fought had shifted from being that of a loyal, if outspoken, courtier to something more threatening. And then there’s the small matter of the Kremlin’s failure to stop the Wagner column — something surely within the capability of Russia’s air force — long before it reached Rostov-on-Don,...