When Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner militia crossed its “Rubicon” the Rostov-on-Don, all decision-makers and strategic planners in the Middle East braced for a face-off between the mercenaries’ employer and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
While the crisis abated as quickly as it began, the root causes remain – as are lessons begging to be learned by Israel and other regional powers such as Iran, Turkey and Syria.
What are these lessons, and can anyone outside Russia do anything to avert the nightmare scenario of nuclear weapons falling into rogue hands?
