No tears here from yours truly, because while Putin was clearly looking for a coup, Prigozhin was nonetheless the guy driving the US election interference that got us Trump. And that's obviously not something I love. He was a dirty merc war criming SOB. And while it isn't exactly corroborated, this looks like a cowboy job from Putin. A two-months to the day sentence to let us know where it came from, through straight up explosion. It's out there reverberating and sending a message to people who were still in the field for Wagner.
What else would we suppose is up with that? The DNA says Prigozhin is dead, and so is his very-Nazi looking associate, who looks like he can't even be dead because he was started in a mad scientists' lab.
So um. Russia showed what can happen to people whose reach got beyond the grasp of an actual strongman. It's worse than a little old surrender to the jailhouse, right? They might not be able to do all the things they used to (lunar landings, invasions), but there's one thing they still are fine at.
And we just had a debate where a whole US party failed to clean up after the obvious coup guy they should have had in their sights.
Just saying.
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That Nazi looking associate of his is Dmitry Utkin, who's nickname by the way was "Wagner."
Wagner PMC is literally named after his, now dead, ass.
I saw a passenger manifest somewhere else, and I think Wagner's chief of security met his maker too.
All in all, a pretty good day for "always punch a Nazi" crowd.
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Yes--six of the dead are believed to be Wagner members (nice job for the chief of security getting them all on that plane together!) and "eliminating" the Prigozhin problem this way is certainly more "message-sending" than a tussle with an ornery window or a bad spot of tea. Which should remind people who want to cross Putin that you don't try it unless you mean to finish.
were they just cosplaying military men? i can't fathom how the entire wagner leadership team took a SINGLE jet. that's a SERIOUS security fail. (i also can't figure how prigozhin was so arrogant that he thought he could galivant around and inside russian airspace without SEAD.)
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