As I write this, we know very little about what happened to the Wagner mercenary group's boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, but we know a little something about coincidence.
Normally, this is where a good columnist would talk about the chilling effect the perhaps killing of Prigozhin will have on the Kremlin's critics. That's hard to do here. Most of those who have stood stand against Putin are already quite cold.
We can try to peer into a crystal ball to learn how the death of Putin's Chef will affect the war in Ukraine. But at least for now, the mercenaries aren't doing much fighting. They are in Belarus inwith the Lithuanians and the Poles. And who knows what Prigozhin was left in charge of after the coup. He may not have died immediately, but it seems unlikely that Putin would have left the man with much power on his way to his grave.
The main question is who takes over the rest of Prigozhin's empire? Wagner has a special place in the world, propping up dictators across Africa while helping to beggar their countries by stripping them of resources. It's a one-stop shop for your average authoritarian in need, offering protection and projection of nastiness against enemies.
Will Putin trust all this power to one oligarch again? Will someone walk away from the Wagner/Prigozhin debacle even richer than before? Or will it all be taken apart and sold for scrap?Jason Fields is a deputy opinion editor at Newsweek.
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