Get ready for the flood of kompromat
As Vladimir Putin sits thinking in his bomb-proof office, he may come to regret the fact that the entire world is sure that he ordered the death of the mutinous mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. The Kremlin is a Camorra, a mafia style parliament, running a gangster operation to fill Putin’s pockets and those of his oligarchs and elites. But as the Japanese found in Burma in 1944, if you prosecute a war with terror you will likely come unstuck against a well led, motivated and moral organisation like General ‘Bill’ Slim’s ‘Forgotten Army’.
Putin may in fact have signed his own death warrant. His fingerprints may not have been on the firing button when Prigozhin’s jet was brought down, and may not have been on the Polonium or Novichok which killed some of his other opponents, but his DNA is all over the orders. He now has two very powerful groups to worry about – quite apart from the International Criminal Court, which no doubt has so much evidence that if he ever gets to the Hague he will never leave.
Firstly, Putin must worry about his oligarchs who have now been holed up in their dachas in Moscow for over 18 months, unable to use their superyachts or villas in the Mediterranean. As their leader is further vilified around the globe over this latest murder, the oligarchs may come to see that their only chance to break out of Russia, now so diminished economically and socially, is to dispose of Putin.
Secondly, the Wagner Group might have lost their ‘cowboy’ leader and his deputy, but they remain a large force of thugs and murderers. Prigozhin was no military commander, but the Wagner Group is the most successful military outfit that Russia has managed to put into the field, no matter that they are paid mercenaries, many of them recruited out of Russian jails. To control such a rabble, you need some very hard ‘lieutenants’ running the show and these men will now be considering the future in Belarus and Africa. How ironic it would be if somebody showered them with riches to go and create mayhem within Russia. My experience of mercenaries is that they are not too picky about whose money they take.
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What if it is truly was an accident?
It changes nothing because nobody would believe it.
I mean JFK could have been struck by a micrometeorite or very fast moving bee. What if?
Same way as it’s surprising how careless enemies of the Russian state tend to be when standing near high windows.
Yeah I mean really. Fall from window, plane crash, and poisoning seem to be the big assassination methods. They should always be regarded with extra suspicion.
Then Occam’s Razor has grown dull.
Then still everyone thinks that Putin did it. There is no way to know. I think even the US said that it was an accident
The US only said it didn’t have any evidence it was caused by a missile… which should be read as we don’t want to acknowledge our information gathering network has info about this incident so we saw nothing 😉
We do know that the civilian radar in the area was jammed 30 seconds before the plane started pinwheeling. And that the plane was pinwheeling, which is most commonly seen in missile strikes.
Latest info suggests it was a bomb set up before the plan took off.
Magic 8 Ball says “Very Doubtful”
then Putin shouldn’t have been committing political assassinations for decades
Doesn’t really matter if it was or wasn’t. I’m sure no one in Wagner is believing that and their beliefs are what matter here.
Same thing that happened that time there really was a wolf
What if my Aunty had balls? Would she be my uncle?
The plane accidentally crashed into an antiaircraft missile. What are the odds?!?
50/50 at best!