This is Odd

OK, we now have a report that Prigozhin and Putin had a relatively cordial meeting after the Wagner Group mutiny. 

Putin is a lot of bad things, but he is not a Bond Villain who feels compelled to reveal his plans to his adversaries.

This is not what I would expect given the reported circumstances.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out what this is all about.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Wagner Group mercenary boss Yevgeniy Prigozhin and 35 of his commanders on June 29 in Moscow, five days after Prigozhin launched his brief mutiny to oust the country’s top military officials, whom Prigozhin said had botched the invasion of Ukraine.

The meeting was held shortly after Putin vowed to mete out “harsh” punishment against Wagner’s leaders as the Russian president grappled with the greatest challenge of his tenure. Russian elites have criticized Putin’s decision to drop insurgency charges against Prigozhin and the mercenaries after Wagner shot down several Russian aircraft and killed Russian troops.

In a three-hour meeting, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, Putin “gave his assessment” of the private military company’s fighting record in Ukraine as well as its actions on the day of the mutiny.

“The president listened to the commanders’ explanations and offered them options for further employment options and combat application,” Peskov told reporters in a conference call Monday.

This sounds an awful lot like the aftermath of a hostile takeover in the corporate world.

Nasty words, followed by an agreement, and then a massive golden parachute for the exiting executives, followed by a polite exit interview.

I'm thinking that Lynette Nusbacher was right, this was all just a dispute over price.

If it's something else, this whole wheels within wheels sh%$ is completely beyond me.