This is real time fascinating modern war with old Russian protagonists in which there are no good guys. It pits the Wagner Boss Prigozhin, who owns the Troll Farm that helped Trump gain the Presidency, against Putin, the dictator who used the Wagner Group to commit heinous war crimes in Ukraine and elsewhere.

In our last episode Prigozhin was on his way to Moscow with a small army of Ukraine war hardened mercenaries when the Belarusian dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, says he negotiated a truce between Prigozhin and Putin that would require Prigozhin to stand down and exile in Belarus.

Ha! I made the claim at the time that Putin and Prigozhin cannot both remain alive for very long. One will kill the other.

The Belarusian president(read dictator) says Prigozhin is no longer in Belarus but in Russia. Putin raided Prigozhins Petersburg estate and found weapons, gold bars and wigs. Prigozhin is bald.

Wagner group associates have been "detained" in Russia and are being interrogated. 5th story windows have become seriously dangerous in Russia, as generals, journalists and associates of everyone but Putin seem to fall out of them on a daily basis.

Follow some of the events at the Guardian: (link...)

Who is your money on? What's the betting line on Putin v Prigozhin Fight of the Century?