After the end of the coup, Russian President Putin promised Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin impunity. Now Prigozhin is dead – and according to security expert Christian Mölling, Putin is even more firmly in the saddle.
According to security expert Christian Mölling, Russian President Vladimir Putin has consolidated his rule. Mölling said on Friday in star– “Ukraine – the situation”: “Putin has clarified what the playing conditions are.” Mölling was referring to the plane crash that apparently killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. Two months ago, Prigozhin and his Wagner troupe tried to stage a coup against Putin – and initially received a promise to remain unpunished. “It would have been an expression of weakness if Prigozhin had been allowed to get away,” said Mölling.
The research director of the German Society for Foreign Relations described violence as “the DNA of this state”. According to the logic of the Russian system of rule, a traitor must die if he cannot seize power himself. A “situation of essential insecurity” has now arisen in Russia. “You have a murderer and criminal at the head of a state,” he said, and asked: “What else do you want to believe?” According to Mölling, Putin’s commitments are worthless. “That alone is a point that is not reflected at all in the German debate,” he said, referring to the call for negotiations with Russia.
Violence in Russia continues after Vladimir Putin
Mölling was not very confident that democratic conditions could emerge in Russia after the end of Putin’s rule. He predicted that if Putin were ousted, new violence would follow. Nobody should expect “that this system of violence and rule can easily be transformed”. So far, the system has “worked with potential for violence”. So with the possibility of violence that you have not called off. “Now it is being called up, both externally and internally.” This could certainly lead to a new equilibrium – “at a level at which all the forces of violence in the Kremlin have balanced themselves again.”
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The war in Ukraine was a disruptive factor here, since the results of this cannot be calculated. However, he did not see any immediate effects of Prigozhin’s presumed death on the war. The Wagner troops would have nothing to do with the current battles anyway and would now probably be integrated into the regular armed forces or other private troops that had contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Source: Stern
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