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OT: World Politics

Its pretty amazing that russian bigwigs let themselves get pocked off like this and none of them try to off putin first.

I've been taught to never underestimate my enemies, but it seems like the financial and military leaders of Russia tend to act all to frequently like they're in a bad parody of a Wile E Coyote and Road Runner cartoon. I honestly did not think that they could be this stupid. I clearly have over-estimated them.
 
Yeah, I was baffled at the time as to how Prigozhin figured he could get away with aborting a coup against Putin partway through the attempt and still live.

And even moreso when he kept jetting around inside Russia with impunity afterwards.

Will be fascinating to see if he had any contingency plans in place and/or if there’s any blowback from whatever remains of Wagner. Or if he’s just a jumped-up dumb thug who overplayed his hand.
 
I think he def had a contingency plan that Putin was aware of, (hence the soft response from Vlad at the time)…..but I suspect Putin’s been able to thwart that plan in advance of assassinating him.

Hope I’m wrong tho, would be fascinating to see just what Prigozhin’s killswitch threat was.
 
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Has there been any confirmation other than the flight manifest that Prigozhin was actually on the plane?
 
if the leadership group is gone, and many more of these guys are scared shitless, anyone who actually tries to march anywhere is heading straight to target practice.
 
if the leadership group is gone, and many more of these guys are scared shitless, anyone who actually tries to march anywhere is heading straight to target practice.

Yah, the element of surprise has been used up. More likely these guys will drift away and form/join organized crime groups. Regime loyalty is also a consideration with all that, so there would likely be some dust ups in that ecosystem.
 
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