Ɖ Gardịn vy on Prigoźin’z ḿṭni: Pūtin’z probḷmz r’nt ovr
Transcription of a Guardian editorial of 25 June 2023
Ɖ Vāgnr grūp ćīf’s rbełn swiftli cem t a hōlt, bt ɖ consiqnsz wl rvrḅret in Ruśa n bynd
Súnde, 25 Jūn 2023
Yevgeni Prigoźin cōld of hiz marć on Mosco on Saṭde evri bit az abrupli az h hd bgun hiz rbełn ɖ prīvịs de. Bt ɖ Vāgnr grūp’s armd ḿṭni, hvr śort-livd, hz dminiśt Vladīmir Pūtin in ɖ îz v bʈ ɖ ilīt n ordnri Ruśnz. Ɖ mrṣnriz hd tecn ovr ɖ Ruśn suɖn militri cmand in Rostof-on-Don, a l’jisticl hub fr ɖ Ycren inveźn, bfr rêsñ twdz ɖ capitl. Mr Pūtin wz forst t worn v “a dedli ʈret t ǎr stet” n Mosco’z mẹr rjd rezidnts t ste at hom.
Ẃl Mr Prigoźin’z uprîzñ lcs lîc a despṛt act t stop hiz prîṿt armi biyñ incorṗretd intu reğlr forsz, sm wundr f brōdr intṛilīt conflict lîz in ɖ bacgrǎnd. Ɖ Vāgnr ćīf hd bcm incrisñli brezn in hiz atacs on ɖ dfnsministr, Serge Śôgu, n cmandr in ćīf, Valeri Gerasimof. Iniṣ́li ɖr wr sjsćnz ɖt h mt b actñ wɖ ɖ apruvl v ɖ Cremlin. Bt on Frîde, Mr Prigoźin atact nt onli ɖ x’kśn v ɖ wor bt its vri raṣ́nal, bfr clemñ ɖt Ruśn forsz hd cild scorz v hiz men in a rocit’tac n dmandñ rvnj on ɖ “īvl” militri līdrśp. A de lêtr – aftr Mr Pūtin akzd him v trīzn – h ćalinjd hiz mastr ǎtrît fr ɖ frst tîm.
Mr Prigoźin’z hybris wz olrdi astǎndñ. Hiz unlîcli rîz sw him ivolv fṛm peti ʈug t a ʈug on a grand scel, via a hotdog stand n militri ceṭrñcontracts. Vāgnr, a netwrc v cumṗniz, z b’livd t hv snt mrṣnriz t abt 30 cuntriz. Mr Prigoźin set p trolfacṭriz, tù, n wz indîtd in ɖ YS ovr inṭfiṛns in ɖ 2016 YS ilex́n. Vāgnr wz jujd t alǎ Ruśa “plōzibl dnạbiḷti”, n its fǎndr himslf dsclemd ɖ grūp, suwñ mīdia hu hd alejd cnx́nz bfr acnoḷjñ hiz rǒl last Sptmbr.
Hiz clem ɖt h std dǎn hiz men t privnt bludśed rezd îbrǎz, gvn ɖ atroṣtiz v ẃć Vāgnr forsz hv bn akzd in Ycren, Siria, Sntṛl Africn Rpublic n uɖr neśnz. H prizyṃbli riylîzd ɖt h cd nt amas inuf s’port. Bt h hz nt bn puniśt – yt – n wz sd t b gwñ t Beḷrūs, s’pozidli folowñ ɖ mīdieśn v its līdr, Alexander Lŭcaśenco. Ɖ fîtrz hu s’portd ɖ uprîzñ wl rportidli b fgivn; uɖrz sbsymd intu ɖ reğlr militri, az pland. Ɖ disintgreśn v Vāgnr forsz cd b hlpfl t Ycren’z cǎnṭ’fnsiv, az cd ɖ Ruśn līdrśp’s dstrax́n. Mor criticl me b ɖs episod’z impact on ɖ mrāl v Ruśn trūps n rleśnz amñ its rūlñ clīc. Ɖ dīl, n Mr Prigoźin’z svîvl, simḅlîz Mr Pūtin’z wìcnis.
On Saṭde, ɖ Ruśn līdr drù paṛlélz wɖ wortîm ivnts in 1917 ɖt léd t “dstrux́n v ɖ armi n ɖ stet”. Uɖrz sáitd 1991: Miħaīl Grbaćof sw of a cù, bt nɖr h nr ɖ Sovịt Yńn lastd ɖ yir. Fy asym ɖ sem fet fr Mr Pūtin. Bt hiz grip on hiz cuntri hz nvr fest gretr ʈret. In ɖ last 18 munʈs h hz bn dlt tū gret bloz intîrli v hiz ǒn crieśn: hiz feld atmt t tec Cyīv n brñ Ycren t hìl, n nǎ ɖ rbełn bî hiz ǒn proṭźe, wɖ forsz h inebld. Ɖ unsrtnti n hymilieśn me mc him mor denjṛs. Ẃl Mr Prigoźin’z uprîzñ apirz t b ovr, its consiqnsz r onli startñ t unfold.
