Is Russia Fracturing?

This week's Islamist uprising in Dagestan comes a year to the day after Prigozhin's failed coup against Moscow's FSB regime.

We understand that shootings happened simultaneously in the cities of Makhachkala and Derbent. An uprising also happened in Putinist occupied Georgia.

The fact that these uprisings included attacks on churches and synagogues pointed to ISIS and the terrorist group Islamic State Khorasan Province floats to the top of my list.

ISIS would understand that Putin's Ukraine folly weakens his control of the North Caucasuses. ISIS will likely have gained popularity because Putin used the Ukraine invasion as a broad pogrom against Muslims (as canon fodder). There will also be a large number of disaffected, combat hardened Muslim soldiers returning from Ukraine.

I've actually been warning the Putinists about this geopolitical risk for years but the arrogant fools thought they could turn Europe's clock back about 1500 years. They couldn't.

The ice underneath Tsar Putin's feet is melting.