As you may have heard, there appears to be a coup underway in Russia right now. And as is typical with coups from the dawn of time, the side performing the coup is a once-loyal military faction led by a General who has lost faith in the current political regime. In today’s coup, the General is a guy named Yevgeny Prigozhin. Yevgeny Prigozhin is able to pay for his private military force, the Wagner group, because he is a billionaire. How did Yevgeny become a billionaire? Since this is Russia, you might assume he controls an oil, gas or fertilizer empire. That’s not the case. Yevgeny Prigozhin earned his billion-dollar fortune as a caterer. But not just any caterer, for the last two decades, Yevgeny Prigozhin has been essentially the Russian government’s exclusive catering contractor for everything, from school lunches to prison food. Yevgeny’s nickname is literally, “Putin’s Chef.” And it all started from a hot dog stand.

So the best I can determine so far is that a non-official army created by one guy (the Kremlin caterer – no, seriously, this is where he started) ostensibly answerable to him alone, is now marching on Moscow to overthrow him.

This is some serious shit, people. Yeah, my first thoughts were pure Schadenfreaude – and Putin righteously deserves an ass kicking on general principles. First, he believed his own bullshit about how good the Russian military was. Second, he believed his own propaganda regarding how popular he really was.

The reality is proving woefully evident. By choosing to flaunt both the Russian military’s reputation and his own absolute control – never even remotely challenged – he exposed the frailty of both.

The much beleaguered US Constitution gets the credit why this hasn’t already happened here. And what should scare everyone is why a powerful faction of the government is pushing, hard, to create exactly the same sort of World Power State above even its own laws by politically weakening the Constitution they swore to “protect and defend” every chance they get.

I’m also scared at how much power has been given to old Russian men with big financial interests. If Putin is really this shallow, who is controlling the nukes?