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Analysis: Why Prigozhin’s short-lived Russian rebellion failed

(CNN) — Wagner mercenary boss Yevegeny Prigozhin over-reached and lost.His hubris-fuelled insurrection failed through a combination of hot-headed ambition and his inability to read Putin’s inner circle, of which he was a member, properly.As one informed Moscow resident told me,…

From ‘brain death’ to innovator, the Ukraine war has transformed NATO

(CNN) — Ever since President Vladimir Putin gave the order for Russian troops to invade Ukraine, the international response has understandably focused on how best to end the land war. That has meant sending conventional military hardware – tanks, missile systems, artillery – and training Ukrainian soldiers.  Not bad…