Two months to the day after the coup attempt. His number was up the second he stopped advancing on Moscow.
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Yeah, it's definitely suspicious how this plane crash happened just two months after the coup attempt. It seems like someone wanted to silence him for good. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more to this story than meets the eye.
There is ...
"Christopher Steele - former head of the Russia desk at Britain's foreign intelligence agency (MI6) - says it's "inevitable" that this would be Prigozhin's ending."
"We were told some weeks ago, in fact, that there had been a contract taken out on Prigozhin inside Russia by senior people in the business community."
from the link at the top of this toot.
That’s kind of concerning, since it seems to suggest that business leaders in Russia support Putin and weren’t aiming for a coup of their own, unless Prigozhin was somehow a threat to whatever coup they might be planning (if it was being planned at all). Granted, “senior people in the business community” are probably all Putin cronies anyways.
Nothing of that kind of thing happens in Russia without Putin being behind it.
Did the plane fall out of a window?
It was suicide, as was the self-inflicted two gunshots behind his head. Who could have known …
No, it fell down from the stairs
Had to know it would happen sooner rather than later.
I'm just surprised the plane was shot in Russian airspace. Putin's not even trying to hide his assinations anymore.
They don't hide them, they just deny them despite all the evidence to the contrary. Usually while sneering.
I'm surprised it took this long, I thought he'd be dead within a week of his failed coup.
He’s never tried to hide them. That’s the point.
Right.
This assassination wasn't revenge, it was a threat, to anyone else that might be thinking about a coup.
So if I'm the next coup leader I'm absolutely never stopping. If you start the coup either you or Putin will die.
Short term solves some problems, long term risky.
If you come for the king, you best not miss
Wow. They shot it down, too, lol. The members of the air defense battery are suddenly going to get their notice to head to the front if they haven't already.
Zero percent chance the Russian military shot down the plane of a guy who just rebelled against the state accidentally. The order had to come from the top.
Yep, and to cover their tracks, the schlubs who pulled the trigger will be sent to die in some trench in Ukraine
It's a pretty clear message, which I think most people were just waiting for it to happen.
This will rustle some jimmies.
Well, at least it wasn't a slow painful Polonium or Novichok death.
Sounds like time for a deepfake Prigozhin to start showing up as part of a sabotage campaign within Russias borders..
Relatively quick retribution, no? Will this have any effect though besides confirming that if you cross Putin, you die?
Wagner allied channels are talking of another march on Moscow.
But without a unifying leader? Who knows?
Now that would be interesting. If they started and actually completed the march.
Surprised it took this long for Pooty Poo to deal with his little problem.
So this is how it ends for Prig.
Dammit, I had plutonium tea on my bingo card.
He should have stuck with his hot-dog cart.
"Pilot error"
Pilot leaned out of the window too much and fell off.
Pilot flew into a missile.
Revenge is a dish served… warm-ish
I'm not buying it. Prigozhin lives. Probably hanging out with Tupac and Michael Jackson.
So they get to come down from heaven and help torture him?
Putin retaliation or faked death to avoid Putin retaliation... who is to say.
Only onboard the plane in paper. He is probably fine. I highly doubt he's dumb enough to use his actual documents when flying
If Putin wants him dead and Prigozhin is in Russia, there's not much he can do to avoid his fate.
If Prig got dusted, better hope there aren’t to many of his comrades in arms who don’t hold a grudge. Because Russia has been dredging the prisons and slums to give uniforms to. And Wagner’s crew are to say the least a bit more motivated (ie fucken bloodthirsty)
Nope.
BBC has this ...
"Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow."
Your quote says a plane was shot down, not that his body was confirmed with proof
It's a plane crash for heaven's sake. The bodies will have to be identified by forensics, not by photos.
But the manifest has him on that plane so that's what we go by until there's proof otherwise.
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