Beginning of the end of Putin?

[Ike Bana]

Putin continues to be invisible...commented on here in the non-partisan Project Syndicate webpage by Polish Journalist and historian WACŁAW RADZIWINOWICZ.

Putin himself is clearly not up to the hellishly difficult task he now faces: re-asserting control over the country’s demoralized and divided military forces. Until now, his apologists, who have long seemed to believe that he is a political magician who can always pull a rabbit out of his hat, praised him for responding with boasts to the crises his war against Ukraine has unleashed. Today, his boasts are an insecure bully’s threats. If he tries issuing them again, and Prigozhin (or some other rebel) does not fold, Russia will face the prospect of civil war – perhaps short-lived, but bloody.

Putin not resurfacing by now says more about this than anything else.