Larry Nails It.

As was pointed out often--all this Wagner thing is largely a hype. Now that the truth begins to hit lay public's minds, it is time to talk openly. Larry nails it:

My point is simple — take a big grain of salt to any story touting the prowess of Wagner or the leadership of Prigozhin. I tend to believe those stories are being fed to the public as an information operation as opposed to journalistic reporting. What is not false or a deception is the fact that tensions are building on the Poland/Belarus border and that Putin has warned that any attack on Belarus will be viewed as an attack on Russia. That should make anyone’s blood run cold.

Horrendous numbers of Wagner's losses in Bakhmut testify to a very low level of training (only 21 days instead of months, where the money provided for the normal training went make you own conclusion) and a complete lack of self-awareness. And look, Wagner is gone and Russian Army grinds VSU forces around it into dust and extremely efficiently. So much for Prigozhin's BS that if Wagner leaves the front collapses. They left and things only improved. But it is now FSB and Investigative Committee's task, together with Main Military Prosecutor Office, to root out those who aided Wagner which amounted to nothing more than a well armed organized criminal group.