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BTW, re the Team Russia 'coup' / 'insurrection' / 'mutiny', now that we might think we know more, we can say more.
(1) Am proud of my Jack for at dinner last night I asked him in relation to the 'coup / insurrection / mutiny' (CIM) in terms of him chancing upon a Mexican standoff in a darkened bar what should he do? He unhesitatingly replied, "duck behind the counter and draw gun". Folks at the dinner table clapped.
(2) During the course of the CIM and in larger context of the SMO, even as Team Russia is a member BRICS+ and SCO, Team China said not a word whilst many other domains gabbed away, which I thought strange, no messages of support ('hope tranquility returns ASAP', no displays of caution (military alert on border), and just business as usual on a semi-public-holiday weekend (DuanWu festival).
(3) Then I remembered what Core Comrade Jinping said to Putin when he said goodbye at end of recent Moscow trip
Core Comrade Jinping said "We are the ones driving ...", not 'Russia and China' but "We", meaning 'you and I', and in order to be "We" Putin must stay around, like win the election March 2024.
I think that, arguably, Putin just won the March 2024 election, but in June 2023.
(4) If and should Putin formally win the election come March 2024, we shall know definitively what we just saw with our lying eyes this weekend.
(5) Anyone in Russia and any domain anywhere exhibited support for Putin's friend Progozhin best make a run for it, and get ready to be NSII-ed, respectively, a guess
(6) I note, and imagine Team USA ever does so politico.eu
Russia launches lab to study Xi Jinping ideology
The center aims at understanding the ideas of the Chinese president and strengthening relations between the two countries.
(7) Dunno, remaining agnostic, the range of possibilities I reckoned remain possibilities, at the get-go
