I stop watching for a little bit and it all ends….

I don’t have a clear idea of what he got out of this. Some say that he was just allowed to leave with his skin in tact while others say he was promised leadership changes in the Russian MOD. Regardless, I don’t think he is gong to live long although I do expect that they will let him go into exile since they have announced that as solution. However, he will still need to be very careful to stay away from windows and make all his own tea. On the other hand, a long life was not in his plan from the day he started to run his mouth so as soon as it became clear that nobody was coming over to join him all he could do is negotiate for the best terms possible.

Even 25 thousand men that have nobody fighting them can only take a small part of Moscow just because of it shear size. The city proper has 970 square miles and the actual metropolitan area has 10,000 square miles. If Wagner had got into Moscow they would have barely have enough men to secure the city center. That is why I said earlier that there plans were tactically sound but strategically dubious. They did get all the way to outskirts of Moscow and I am not sure anyone could have stopped them from entering so in that respect they planned it well. But once in the city that big all they would have been was a traveling traffic jam even with hundreds of armored vehicles.

As it stands right now, I am not sure how well he played his hand because I don’t know what he got. I know some pro-Wagner accounts are very un-happy and I know some anti-Wagner Russian accounts are unhappy. I guess it fits those whose idea of a good compromise as one that leaves everyone unhappy but we will have a better idea in the next 24 hours of how well Wagner played its hand.