Has Putin lost control?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday morning it looked like we might see the collapse of one of the world's longest standing dictators, Vladimir Putin. By Monday things were suspiciously calm, and the uprising against him - by his own former chef - was being flat out denied.
So what just happened in Russia? Was it the start of a revolution? Or a massive mistake? Will this weaken Putin's grip or strengthen his hand?
And what to make of the mercenary leader - Prigozhin- who is literally in it for the money? We talk war tactics and the psychology of an autocrat.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:17.5 | Morgan! |
| 0:18.1 | Fucking! |
| 0:18.3 | It's got the sort of happy chant of a football team, but it's Wagner that they're shouting. |
| 0:30.0 | These are people in the crowds, normal Russian citizens, cheering on the group that try to unseat their president this weekend. |
| 0:42.3 | The definitive account of the Russian Revolution in 1917 was the 10 days that shook the world, |
| 0:49.6 | and they did shake the world. What we've had this weekend is the 24 hours that befuddled the world |
| 0:55.8 | and it has sort of befuddled us. Famously, there was a Chinese leader who was asked in the |
| 1:01.5 | 1970s what he made at the French Revolution and replied, it's too early to tell. Well, we're feeling a bit |
| 1:07.7 | like that today. We know that there's a lot of information circling, |
| 1:12.5 | and we know there's a lot of disinformation, also circling. We're trying to sort out what we know |
| 1:18.5 | and what we know isn't true. Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's John. |
| 1:28.1 | It's Emily. |
| 1:28.9 | Now, if you've spent the weekend, I don't know, at Glastonbury or in a very calming retreat |
| 1:34.7 | or maybe splashing around in the waves on the coast, you might have got back and thought, |
| 1:42.3 | what have I missed? |
| 1:43.7 | And the answer is, what looked like an |
| 1:46.6 | entire military coup in Russia that threatened to turn the whole world upside down and then suddenly |
| 1:54.8 | went away and seemed like nothing had happened. Yeah, same with Glastonbury. It was guns and roses without the roses. |
| 2:02.6 | And yet today, we might be back where we started. |
| 2:06.6 | Yeah, everything is the same. |
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