Aged like milk, faster than milk ages in the noon sun.

Not necessarily. It still made him look very weak, making concessions instead of crushing Prigozhin as threatened.

Exactly as I expected. I said earlier that he's pretty much a windbag and never follows through, and that's how it ended up

And Putin still lost. He's been shown to be weak. He compromised.

Now the other sharks that Putin surrounded himself with will smell that weakness.

Autocrats must project that Strongman image, especially when it's a lie. Dictators who show weakness like this rarely die peacefully.

Over-ish. Wagner just showed Putin that he doesn’t have total control. I doubt the power dynamic will remain the same after this.

This is far from "over." If Wagner's going back because Putin caved on their terms Putin's left looking tremendously weak.