Another thing,,,
In any war it is highly important to keep track of a division of troops as large as Wagner Group,,, where are they?,,Are they dividing and going to re-appear at multiple places on the front line? Where does Ukraine shift their troops to to react to this? Twenty five thousand solders is no laughing matter if they can disappear and then you loose track of where they might re-appear.
You may not understand that Progie is NOT a battlefield commander. No, but he is a manager and "spokesman" and maybe paymaster.
In fact,
ALL Wagner unit/field commanders are Russian MOD, and Russian FSB is peppered throughout.
And Progie of course was perfectly well aware of:
1) these back-channels to Putin.
2) that Putin demands total loyalty and betrayal is fatal
3) that his future and well being is wholly predicated upon the premise of #2
4) Progie is already a very wealth man, with a fortune that must be in the hundreds of millions at least
For these reasons (and more), I think that the probability that Progie
went rogue or cracked under pressure or took the CIA bribe then relented at the last moment
to be very very slim.
Far far more likely is the scenario that
there was allowed channels of contact with spook agency and NATO operatives who attempted a coup attempt via bribe etc. Progie did the right thing for his mob boss Putin, acted as a double agent, and engaged with his security apparatus in a staged counter-coup, the results of which benefited all parties, and accelerated the war effort.
The whole escapade was just too quick, clean and the results were just too neat and tidy for me to believe that it was not all carefully orchestrated from the start.