[vba616]

>Stop buying into the "Putin is a master planner" bullshit.

Getting up in the morning and following dictatorship 101 rules like the day before is not being a "master planner".

Authoritarian rulers fear coups. They use paramilitary entities to keep the regular military under control. When they fear an imminent coup, they continue to use such entities, because it is the real military which could have enough popular support to succeed.

The simplest possible explanation for the publicized events is that Prigozhin never stopped doing his job, never changed his role, nor failed to follow orders. A not-so-public, but not completely hidden purge occurred. And when Prigozhin was done, he exited stage left.

That seems to me the correct application of Occam's razor in this case. Everything else, in my opinion, is the wild speculation without evidence.

[lostmsu]

Just the text length of the parent post is shorter, so their explanation is better by definition according to Occam's razor (only joking).