Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia, with nine other people on board also dead
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Who would have expected this? Surprised pikachu
But the only one who opposed Putin (with any military power) being dead isn't necessary a good thing (imho)
Yeah, but he was stripped of all of his power. Wagner group is being rolled into the state military. The opportunity for Wagner to push back and or give Putin the boot has passed.
And, this dude was also an evil corrupt piece of shit. If he overthrew Putin, Russia would’ve still been an authoritarian disinformation state.
He was a straight-up Neo-Nazi and named the group after Hitler's favorite composer. So yeah, he would have been infinitely worse than Putin... and that's saying something.
I thought the link between Wagner Group and Hitler was a stretch, but it turns out the group's name comes from founder Dmitry Utkin's callsign, and he chose it specifically because Wagner was Hitler's favorite composer. Utkin himself has Nazi tattoos.
Yeah but a guy with a Stalin pfp told me Ukrainians are the real Nazis /s
This baffles me. That anyone would idolize Nazism is baffling, but particularly Russians. I mean does nobody remember Stalingrad?
Anything you hear from Russia, you can just as well forget, it's nothing but propaganda, lies, spin, and disinformation. They use Nazi guys like Wagner to fight what they call "Nazis" in Ukraine. It's the "we fake it so hard that people couldn't believe it someone would lie that bad" tactic. Never engage with Russia / Russians who aren't publicly opposed to Putin and the status quo. You can only waste time.
Nobody remembers yesterday's news, lol.
I'd need a night or two to explain how russian national policy is fucked. Slavs being afraid they are getting erased and replaced, abused minorities (mostly muslim easterners) feeling they aren't treated right and forming diasporas. I'm surprised we don't see news about nationally-motivated bloodshed every other day.
It's a good ground for seeding all kinds of reactive extremism. The city I lived before even had a place for neo-nazi pagan-like worship in the woods, with all these carved dicks, and places occupied by minorities where no slav would even come to. A place of contrasts.
No lawmaker bothered to resolve these tensions, and only used them for political points. No wonder it's a can of worms. And it leads to hypocrisy like that.
The picture of Utkin with nazi tatoos is not Utkin, they don't look the same and it's unsourced.
LOL.
When Bellingcat says that's not Dmitry Utkin, I listen.
LOL. You're hilarious.
Wagners are straight up fleeing into neighboring countries and Africa. They must have read the history books about what happens when one warlord assimilates another's forces (they kill them quietly and easily now that they're disarmed).
i don't think, russia and historical knowledge can come together
Yup.
A couple months ago? There would be an argument that he could do more good than bad.
Yesterday? He was a powerless nazi thug
Today? Maybe he is in exile. Maybe he is a charred corpse on the ground. Either way, one less nazi.
Seems like most reasonable folks didn’t think he’d reform Russia. The only “good” he’d cause would be unrest that would force Russia to pull out of invading their democratic neighbors.
I don't think anyone expected a reform.
But it would have been a comparatively bloodless coup by a powerful military figure that would likely have ended the current war in Ukraine. As opposed to the likely outcomes of
- putin finally loses it and hits the red button (which is actually a lot harder in russia, to my understanding, but is still a threat)
- Some less powerful individual(s) attempt a coup and we end up with warlords vying for control of russia's nuclear arsenal
Like, there is no good outcome of this. But prigozhin probably would have been the lesser of the evils as it would start another cycle of russia preparing for war (and ravaging The Global South but... nobody cares about them) and allowing The West to try and prop up a more palatable person to take control in a future coup.
If he overthrew Putin, Russia would’ve still been an authoritarian disinformation state.
He would at least cause a schism between the putin fanatics and everyone else.
But the only one who opposed Putin (with any military power) being dead isn’t necessary a good thing (imho)
Replacing one dictator with another who has the support of something like the Wagner group would not have been good for anyone but the Wagner group.
There would be no clean replacement. It would get very bloody and chaotic. Not a bad hypothetical scenario. But that ship has sailed when Prihozhin surrendered (he didn't stand much of a chance anyway).
If we could avoid another "oops, all Taliban" outcome though, that would be grand.
The most surprising thing here is that nine people were willing to get on a plane with Prigozhin. That's arguably much closer to actual suicide than any of the convenient window deaths that keep happening.
Good thing for Africa for sure.
Not really. Meet your new boss, same as your old boss. Russia isn't pulling out of Africa.
Clearly more missiles are needed.
The Sahel is full of oil and minerals so the "war on terror" is in full swing.
Somehow I always thought they would poison him. More personal. But if he brought his own water, I suppose this saves everybody some time.
It's not too late for them to identify the body by the "Polonium-210 tracer" he got during check-in.
I honestly thought he’d go via the classic window fall, but this was far more original.
He opposed Putin for like 20 minutes.... he embarrassed himself completely
It's not like Putin and his closest cronies are in any way competent. They are removing anyone who dared to criticize. Before the coup Prigozhin, Girkin were allowed to say whatever they wanted as long as they did not undermine the general effort. Now Putin's inner circle will ultimately disconnect themselves from reality: govern the country and the war from a bunker filled with scared yes-sayers with no alternative voices.
I'm pretty sure Ukraine still opposes Putin so at least we got that.