Russia and Ukraine

[Thumpalumpacus]

I doubt prigozhin had the sophistication to think of and pull off the troll farm operation, i suspect prigozhin was just a convenient front to give Putin and FSB/KGB deniability.    Prigozhin is just a brutal thug who was in over his head and not smart enough to realize it.

Putin was the manipulator pulling his strings, most of the time, but Putin is not all knowing or or seeing and fucks up frequently, but he is still a few tiers above most of his cronies ion cunning, vision and studied daring. 

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He will fall afoul of the sunk-cost fallacy. He's already shown that leaning. Now he's balls-deep in a bear-trap: can't pull out for fear of his regime's survival, can't prosecute this to a win. This is his Afghanistan.