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by EA-3167 1085 days ago
A man with a private army on campaign is clashing with ineffective and humiliated political leadership back home, while trying to win popular support?

When does he cross the Rubicon?

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Cynically put, when he is no longer convenient for Putin to keep around.

In another sense - he's a minor warlord, with ~50,000 armed followers, in a huge country. He controls ~zero of the infrastructure, air forces, etc. which would be needed for him to mount even an obviously-doomed bid to topple Putin.