• fluke@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honest at this point I wouldn’t even blink if Prigozhin popped up in the future to tell us they faked their deaths.

    To be clear, I believe that he’s dead (and that it was probably an assassination by Putin), but so many other outrageous things have happened already little surprises me.

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      That’s the first thing I thought when I heard about his death. He should have known that Putin would likely want him dead, so pretending to board a plane that gets shot down is a pretty good way to fake your death. Does he use his fake death to plot revenge or to escape, never to be heard from again?

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        1 year ago

        Who knows if Putin even wanted him dead. It could be a way for him to step out of the spotlight and let Putin show what happens to those who disobey. They have a huge issue with deserters.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if they were found eating kaviar off each others nibbles.

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          Putin wanted him dead without a doubt. He challenged Putin’s authority and marched his forces on Moscow. The Wagner group made Putin look like a scared little removed, which he probably is in real life, so he’s insecure about it.

          Both sides are violent oligarchs that murder people for profit and power. I’ll quote Clarence Darrow here:

          “One reason why we don’t kill is because we are not used to it. I never killed anybody, but I have done just the same thing. I have had a great deal of satisfaction over many obituary notices that I have read. I never got into the habit of killing. I could mention the names of many that it would please me if I could read their obituaries in the paper in the morning,”

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            Sure they probably would kill each other just for fun, but they were also allies until this.

            It’s about money. They’re mercenaries. If they don’t get paid, they’ll bite the hand that feeds them. That’s likely why they marched to Moscow. So Prigizhin got paid and they turned around. But what now? Prigozhin has the money. Suddenly dies. Did his mercenaries get paid? Dead men don’t pay bills. There’s no hand to bite. The mercenaries were prisoners before they joined Wagner. It’s unlikely that neither Putin or Prigozhin gives a fuck about them.

            If you ask me, it’s really fucking convenient for both Putin and Prigozhin to fake his death right about payday.

        • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.one
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          I wouldn’t be surprised if they were found eating kaviar off each others nibbles.

          I did not ask for this mental image today

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      I’d hoped he piloted a Kamikaze plane into Putin’s card fortress so both of them could go to hell to meet Hitler whom they admired so much

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      At this point it’s such a clown show that I wouldn’t be surprised by much.