I mean… revenge is a dish best served cold, right?
Omar Little agrees.This is the textbook example of why you don't half ass a coup after getting cold feet. You either win or die trying. What a monumental dumbass
Omar Little agrees.
Yes, for all we can see here, Prigozhin didn't do the supposed deal. Instead of laying low in Belarus he was welcoming African leaders and making TikTok videos in Mali.I don't really think so. The deal included Wagner to move to Belarus, which simply wasn't done. Lukashenko would have reason to worry if this incident happened in Belarus, but it didn't.
Case in point.All these beta little men in their telegram groups, talking about waiting and silence, discussing next moves, they're all so sad.
Come across like losers, not some battle hardened super army soldiers.
Or he knew what was going to happen because Putin is his paymaster.
It could even be the case that Lukashenko effectively tricked Prigozhin to stop his march and that Putin is really happy about his contribution. We just don't know.Yes, for all we can see here, Prigozhin didn't do the supposed deal. Instead of laying low in Belarus he was welcoming African leaders and making TikTok videos in Mali.
We don't know what their so called deal was, but for the publicly released info , none of it happened except some training camps in Belarus.
It could even be the case that Lukashenko effectively tricked Prigozhin to stop his march and that Putin is really happy about his contribution. We just don't know.
The tail crashed over 3km away from the main body of the plane. It was either a bomb planted on the plane or it was shot out of the sky.Given Russian aviation standards, it's actually more likely it was an accident.
It was a joke.The tail crashed over 3km away from the main body of the plane. It was either a bomb planted on the plane or it was shot out of the sky.
UK defence sources say that Russia’s FSB domestic intelligence agency (the successors to the KGB) are those most likely to have targeted Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane.
They are totally loyal to Vladimir Putin and also run the border force.
The view is that this now probably strengthens the position of Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, whom Prigozhin loathed and publicly criticised.
I didn't actually think it was possible to visually identify someone who was in a plane crash.
I didn't actually think it was possible to visually identify someone who was in a plane crash.
So much for Lukashenko's hospitality. They were dumb enough to believe him. A call from Putin's secretary was probably enough to end their agreement.
Visegrad usually reports heavily biased. The only thing we see here as "news" is that the tents are gone. That can mean anything from "Lukashenko betrayed them" to "they moved into real homes instead of tents".
But the two images were taken three weeks apart. What Visegrad posted doesn't show if that tent camp was dismantled today or two weeks ago. So there is no way to know if what we see is even related to Prigozhin's death.Sure, but I really doubt he offered them real homes after Putin killed their boss. He wouldn't risk angering Putin, especially after yesterday's event. He could also excuse this with the fact that he isn't bound by any agreement with a dead guy.
Their leader got fecked for it. And more will die and Putin will make sure the organization will follow him now or he would make it irrelevant.I wonder if there will be a reaction to this. You'd imagine there are some people in Wagner thinking they should have finished what they started.
That's exactly why I think there might be a counter reaction. They all saw how close they were before Prighozin got cold feet. The top in Wagner now must be thinking that either they go quietly into the night and fall out of windows in the coming year, or they go and finish what might still be a very achievable coup.Their leader got fecked for it. And more will die and Putin will make sure the organization will follow him now or he would make it irrelevant.
Do people actually underestimate Putin here for these kind of things? Especially, right after what just happened.
That's exactly why I think there might be a counter reaction. They all saw how close they were before Prighozin got cold feet. The top in Wagner now must be thinking that either they go quietly into the night and fall out of windows in the coming year, or they go and finish what might still be a very achievable coup.