Many on the local level could not believe the Wagner rebellion could be happening without some degree of agreement with the Kremlin, the security officials said

The other side of ruling with an iron fist and micromanaging people. If you stop doing that, these people then just think this is all part of what is supposed happen and are unable to act on their own without explicit orders.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Word is they were also drunk off their asses, which probably correlates with 0 ideological buy-in.

[–] Anomander@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

I think there were a lot of players up and down the ranks waiting to see which way the wind blew before casting for any given side.

With so many concerns that the coup had backing from either Putin or other power blocs, a whole lot of side players would have wanted to back a winning pony and were waiting on early outcomes. Equally, with Putin not providing decisive action, I'm sure that invited meaningful concerns that this was some sort of double-dealing or the beginning of a Putin-backed purge.