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Or it is exactly what it looks like. War was going like shit, Prigozhin got very angry and went off half cocked with no exit strategy, Putin did what Putin does and eliminated him (and what literally everyone who isn't using motivated reasoning to manufacture 4D chess situations expected). Putin blundered into a shitty war, Prigozhin blundered into a shitty aborted coup. Even if you think they're both somehow hyper-intelligent individuals, situationally there's nothing preventing smart people from fucking up and miscalculating badly, that isn't a paradox needing resolving. People do dumb shit. All of them.

Musk bought twitter, Lee Sukbae and Kim Ji-Hoon didn't know half as much about superconductivity as they thought, Stockton Rush made a submersible out of composite, Putin declared war on Ukraine, Prigozhin tried a coup.