Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your Tuesday foreign policy edition.
Last week, I wrote to you that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mallet-wielding warlord who marched on Moscow on June 24, had all his money (and, apparently, some weapons) given back to him and that he had been spotted in Moscow for some meetings. Then, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said that Prigozhin was not, in fact, in Belarus, as per the agreement that deflated the mutiny, but in Russia. And then, yesterday, the coup de grâce: news that Pregozhin was not just in Russia, but had a three-and-a-half hour meeting with Vladimir Putin, himself, just a week after Putin had labeled Prigozhin a traitor.
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Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, your Tuesday foreign policy edition.
Last week, I wrote to you that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mallet-wielding warlord who marched on Moscow on June 24, had all his money (and, apparently, some weapons) given back to him and that he had been spotted in Moscow for some meetings. Then, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said that Prigozhin was not, in fact, in Belarus, as per the agreement that deflated the mutiny, but in Russia. And then, yesterday...
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