Despite the bluster and bravado from Russian state media, pro-war bloggers and various FOX-type propaganda outlets, Putin’s problems are really close to home. What NATO does or doesn’t do is becoming less pertinent to what happens on the ground in Ukraine with each passing day. The Kremlin Killer‘s got things happening on his own ground to worry about.
Western reporting on the unfolding crisis is being hampered by Putin’s crackdown on the Russian press, which began when Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Many independent Russian journalists have been forced to flee the country; most Western journalists have also left Russia in the wake of the crackdown and the arrest of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on false spying charges. Russian state-run media has covered up the truth about the Ukraine war and now seems dazed about how to cover the Prigozhin coup.
