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b'Yevgeny Prigozhin\\u2019s march on Moscow last weekend, which killed more than a dozen Russian soldiers, fizzled as quickly as it began, but its repercussions are just beginning. The Wagner Group commander issued a video from Belarus claiming that he did not attempt a coup against Putin but a protest against the Defense Ministry. Mutiny may be the more accurate description, but Prigozhin \\u201cwas strictly staying within this mythology that Putin makes all the decisions in Russia, and if he makes bad decisions, it\\u2019s because somebody has given him bad information,\\u201d the staff writer\\xa0Masha Gessen\\xa0says. \\u201cHe was marching to Moscow to give Putin better information.\\u201d David Remnick talks with Gessen and the contributor\\xa0Joshua Yaffa, who has written on the Wagner Group, about what lies ahead in Russia. Both feel that by revealing the reality of the war to his own following\\u2014a Putin-loyal, nationalist audience\\u2014Prigozhin has seriously damaged the regime\\u2019s credibility. If an uprising removes Putin from power, \\u201cthere will be chaos,\\u201d Gessen notes. \\u201cNobody knows what happens next. There\\u2019s no succession plan.\\u201d And whatever the West may wish, Ukraine may be better off with the current regime. \\u201cWhoever comes to power after Putin, it\\u2019s not going to be anybody who articulates liberal values. It\\u2019s going to be some sort of Putin-ism without Putin.\\u201d'