• Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
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    1 year ago

    I have two hypothesis to what might have happened:

    1. Putin got to him, but instead of falling out of a window he fell from the sky
    2. Prigozhin stages his own death so he could escape with at least some of his money to somewhere in Africa or South America
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      1 year ago

      some more ideass:

      • Prigozhin was already dead when he was put on the airplane
      • Russians procured 10 more random dead bodies to throw on the airplane
      • completely fake story, Prigozhin is detained in prison somewhere
      • STUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I know you’re just spitballing but putin wouldn’t go through that much effort. I think he’d much rather just kill him for real. Prigozhin filmed the Africa video earlier, then returned to Russia for some reason, and released the video claiming to be in Africa as misdirection. Putin got some good intel on Prigozhin’s plane and took the opportunity to shoot it down and stop the next rebellion before it starts

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      1 year ago

      putin got him, 100%. both wagner and ru mod have reported that priggo is dead, and you don’t just randomly fire a SAM at a civilian jet

      look at what happened to any other nationalist critic of kremlin: tatarsky is dead, girkin is in prison, surovikin is under “house arrest”, now prigozhin and utkin are also dead, and some others, like rybar, were told to toe the line or else and they complied

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      1 year ago

      If it’s #2, I wonder if he’ll still be watching over his back for ice picks for the rest of his life.

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      1 year ago

      I’m in the option 2 camp. While it is entirely possible that he really did die I’m skeptical and think this is some sort of plan of his. I don’t mean to sound conspiratorial but it’s so hard to believe anything reported by Russia

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            1 year ago

            kremlin and wagner are on opposite sides there, and they say the same thing

            putin wanted to show very publicly what happens to traitors, and he did. this is the simplest explanation here; maybe it’s delayed response for mutiny, in which case the only unusual thing is why it happened so late. or maybe it’s gerasimov’s decision, or someone else’s in high command, in which case it’s more of an happy accident for putin

            if it’s what you say, wagner and kremlin or army cooperated for what reason exactly? so that prigozhin can command what is effectively russian colonies in africa, while not allowed ever to get into limelight? putin wanted control over this and over pmc, he tried to get there before, and now it’ll be much easier

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      #3 Prigozhin was not on board, Wagner command knows, so no uprising, and Putin looks like he had him assassinated. Optics preserved

      I might need some sleep

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        1 year ago

        I can’t help but wonder if that whole thing was Putin using Prigozhin to flush out traitors and tempt Ukraine to attack before they were ready.

    • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Im gonna go with #2. Whole story sounds too easy and too convenient to be anything else.

      Give it a few months and you will find this guy eating ice cream in Florida like that Brazilian President