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The way I see it is that Prigozhin was simply too popular for Putin's liking. When the rebellion started nobody was talking shit about them and many were outright optimistic about it. It showed who the people support and Putin really didn't like it.
Before it started Putin was purposefully sending less and less munitions and hardware to Wagner so the Ukrainians would grind them down. Putin was plotting the downfall of Wagner for a while and it's really insane because his PMC still made the most gains up to this day by area. It's probably all the generals around Putin being asshurt at Prigo for "stealing" all the glory from them which is why this feud started. The more I look at this whole SMO clusterfuck the more I realize that russian generals are extremely greedy and willing to throw peoples lives away just so they can have the honor of having their name written in the books as conqueror rather than competing general from other army. Russians treating conquest as competition sport is honestly nothing new, they did same shit when going for Berlin and were pretty open about it. Stalin deliberately didn't decide on which of his generals was supposed to take the city and was like "whoever captures it gets to keep it" which resulted in insane meat-wave offensives to soothe egos of generals.