Prigozhin btw is deeply connected with the Internet Research Agency, a very significant Russian troll factory. The information space inside Russia could get really wild.
Is Prigozhin worse or better than Putin is kind of impossible to say at this point. As a person he's probably the absolute worst kind; ruthless, greedy, corrupt, power hungry. The upside with Prigozhin is that if he ends up as the power to be in Russia, everyone outside of Russia already knows this is guy is a ruthless warlord. He's not going to fool any foreign politicians. (Well, except for the really dumb ones like Trump.)
The worst part about Putin is his nationalism, which is what drove him to attack Ukraine. Paradoxically, if Prigozhin has less morals than Putin, he might be less dangerous in practice to most of the world, because he wouldn't be so driven to imperialistic endeavours.
I can imagine perfectly realistic scenarios where Prigozhin wins and it improves the overall situation in multiple ways.
Let's for example say that Prigozhin ultimately thinks this is a dumb war. He's more selfish than Putin, and is really more interested in being rich and powerful than anything else. I would say this is plausible.
He wins the war, sets himself up as "the man keeping Russia together" by controlling the military, forces Putin to retire (or creates a suicide), picks a successor or even let's an election for the puppet president to happen, has that president end the war (so the decision is not publicly on him), then sits back and enjoys his position as the real power in the country but out of the limelight until his death, not even bothering with day to day politics because laws and rules don't apply to him anyway, causing the country to become somewhat more actually democratic. Not because he cares about democracy, but because a divided multi-party political system with constantly changing leadership stops anyone rising up to challenge him.
I could paint the worst case scenarios too, but I'm deciding not to.
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