When Falling out of a Window Is Just Too Subtle

Only two months ago, Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russia’s private Wagner Group militia, turned his army away from Ukraine’s battlefields and trained them on Russian targets. The Wagner Group executed a stunning advance into Russian territory, sacked the city of Rostov, and advanced north toward Moscow with the stated goal of forcing Vladimir Putin, at gunpoint, to execute some personnel changes in the Ministry of Defense.

The mutiny might have been the most successful armed revolt inside Russia since the Kronstadt uprising. It was certainly the most perilous threat to...