Wagner: A Prong of the Trifurcate Russian Strategic Failure (Part II)

Historically, for a coup to succeed in Russia, several factors needed to happen simultaneously: generals from the army had to conspire with both the security and political elite in the main power centers, funded by economic oligarchs, public opinion shaped and their actions justified by intellectuals and ideologues (during the era of the Soviet Union) or blessed by the authority of the Orthodox Church (in the Russian tsarist period or after). The rebellion of the Wagner Company and its resolution to overthrow the authorities in Moscow lacked many of these factors and elements that have customarily realized the ultimate goals of these coups and secured their success in seizing power and ruling over the state.