[tartuffe78]

Probably just realized he didn't want/couldn't lead a military dictatorship, which probably would've been his only option at that point.

[squidbeak]

If Wagner's rapturous welcome in Rostov was typical elsewhere, he wouldn't have needed to run a military dictatorship.

He seemed to lose his nerve after his call with Lukashenko. It's tough to imagine it being anything other than a threat to his family, in which case it was a schoolboy error to fail to secure them before launching the rebellion.

[whattheheckheck]

And then still gets blown up in a helicopter