After an extraordinary weekend that saw Wagner mercenaries turn against Putin and attempt a march on Moscow. Even though the head of the mercenary group turned back and later said he was only launching a ‘protest,’ it was a remarkable move against the dictator.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said:
“This is just an added chapter to a very, very bad book that Putin has written for Russia. But what’s so striking about it is, it’s internal,” Blinken told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union,” describing the situation as “extraordinary.”
“The fact that you have from within someone directly questioning Putin’s authority, directly questioning the premises that – upon which he launched this aggression against Ukraine. That, in and of itself, is something very, very powerful. It adds cracks. Where those go, when they get there, too soon to say, but it clearly raises new questions that Putin has to deal with,” he said.
