Subject: Re: First Rule of Dictators
If Prighozin's coup does topple Putin, who will lead the Republican party?

Answering my own question: Prighozin himself can, once again, help Trump regain the Oval Office and show him how to be an effective strongman.

" Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Russian private military company Wagner, admitted on Tuesday to founding the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a notorious troll farm that the US government has sanctioned for interfering in American elections.

A Wagner Telegram channel on Tuesday published a statement from Prigozhin, asking him to react to the suggestion that he was the founder of the agency.

'I react with pleasure,' Prigozhin said in the statement. 'I've never just been the financier of the Internet Research Agency. I invented it, I created it, I managed it for a long time. It was founded to protect the Russian information space from boorish aggressive propaganda of anti-Russian narrative from the West.'

There's no doubt that Prighozin and Trump, like Kim Jong Un, Duterte, and Bolsonaro will get along famously.

February 2023: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14...