Photo by Maxim Shemetov / Reuters In his interview with the New Statesman a few weeks after the rebellion that took the Wagner Group to the edge of Moscow on 24 June, a former commander of the mercenary army, Marat Gabidullin, insisted that the Kremlin could not afford to destroy Yevgeny Prigozhin. For a while, Gabidullin seemed correct. For two months, Vladimir Putin moved with caution when dealing with the very people he had called traitors in a televised address to the nation. He even met Prigozhin in the Kremlin, where they discussed the future of Wagner and a possible...