On a palace revolution – Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer in The Guardian:

‘“I don’t think that this was an attempt to replace Putin,” Rob Lee, a US-based expert on the Russian military, said before Prigozhin’s reappearance. “I think basically this was a factional dispute between two important Russian figures that became a challenge to Putin, which is the abnormal part of this.” Joe Biden said the US did not support any side in the uprising after some Russian officials and propagandists claimed that Washington had sought to exploit divisions in the Russian government.
“We made clear we were not involved. We had nothing to do with this,” Biden said in his first comments on the aborted mutiny.
Prigozhin did not abandon his feud with the defence ministry, once again accusing the army of targeting his troops with artillery fire, calling it the “trigger for us to move out immediately”.
He said: “The goal of the march was to not allow the destruction of the Wagner private military company and hold to account the officials who through their unprofessional actions have committed a massive number of errors. Society demanded it.” Prigozhin acknowledged that his troops had killed Russian airmen during the uprising, saying they “regretted that they were required to carry out strikes against aircraft, but they were hitting our forces with bombs and rocket strikes”. Wagner troops shot down an Il-22 plane and several helicopters, footage has shown.
Prigozhin also claimed the Wagner forces’ incursion into Russia was a “masterclass” in how Moscow should have carried out its 24 February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which failed to achieve its goal of taking Kyiv. “If mercenaries from Wagner had been carrying out the tasks, perhaps the ‘special operation’ would have lasted a day,” he said, referring to the invasion.’

Read the article here.

It was just a masterclass. An unconventional masterclass, but they are often the best.

Probably what happened on January 6, 2021, in DC was also a masterclass but the coaches forgot to inform the world about the true nature of the events of that day.

The better euphemism for all failed coups, revolutions and also, for the ones that didn’t fail: masterclasses.