Jwill, look at Simplic's own stats.
Straight after this supposed "coup", Prigo's public popularity dropped like a stone - strike when the iron is hot. He's is largely the figurehead for Wagner, retired GRU run it just like retired MIx run the British versions. If he REALLY was in trouble, then was the moment to splat him.
Not takeaway a handful of contracts, and then send him with a massive force to be tooled up for some key future task.
Have you ever been backstabbed? I have. You don't so easily trust again., let alone the SAME person.
J6 WAS a coup - by the Demonrats and parts of the Security State. Apart from the Left Intelligentsia like Dore and Aaron Mate; and Tucker trying to raise Public awareness of what REALLY went down, it has worked almost perfectly for them.
That election WAS stolen - although nor would I claim to think Trump won, the truth is the rigging on both sides was so vast NOBODY knows the true result.
MANY of those arrested for J6 will have been 'turned', by various threats, to become informants and terrorists for the State. This is normally what happens when you have the "security" Apparatus go "Round up extremists for the Public's benefit" - they fully intend to blackmail and put these types back out to work FOR THEM.
EVERY SINGLE "Islamic" TERROR ATTACK in the the UK for the past 20 years, the "perps" had "Extensive contact with the security forces beforehand". Can one say "Patsies"?
And those who don't cooperate have "no rights". The corporate media will highlight just how badly THE'VE been treated too, to put the shitter up the rest.
Just one big machine.
Course, if at the end, Prigozhyn winds up in 'Siberia', I will have been wrong. It happens. ;)