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CIA director Williams Burns told Puck that some Wagner troops may have felt the revolt wasn't what they signed up for. Prigozhin was "making it up as he went along," Burns told Puck. "Some of his men started getting cold feet," Burns said. While speaking on a panel at the conference last week, Burns said Prigozhin was "making it up as he went along." Burns also noted Prigozhin had only 5,000 men with him — not nearly enough to actually take Moscow.
Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin's, Williams Burns, Puck, Wagner, Prigozhin, Burns, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Puck's Julia Ioffe, Putin, Organizations: CIA, Service, Aspen Security Locations: Wall, Silicon, Moscow,
'A useful idiot'Russian President Vladimir Putin and his regime are well known for spreading propaganda about the war effort in Ukraine — but they've also had help disseminating their messages from influential and powerful public figures. Among them are Elon Musk, the Tesla CEO and billionaire who is known for sharing his takes on just about any topic on Twitter — which, notably, he owns as of last week. Puck's Julia Ioffe, a journalist and expert on Russia, wrote last month that Musk has been "simply acting as a messenger for the Kremlin." "A useful idiot." Musk is hardly alone among powerful figures repeating Putin talking points.
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