My own immediate thought.
It’s amazing how small you can squish a body if you’re not picky about things like breaking many, many bones.
Like that scene in Aliens 3?
Yep, just like that; acid for blood and everything.
Putin has had a couple of months to neuter Wagner as a fighting force and minimize the threat from any further rebellion from them.
But retribution was always likely to come:
Summary of events from a couple of months ago:
“A 200 square foot apartment in Minsk!”
Moral of the story: the tail cannot wag the dog.
It cannot even wag the rat.
That clip is from Alien Resurrection.
The partially State Owned energy company, Gazprom, has formed it’s own mercenary group.
And Putin owns a lot of the privately held shares in Gazprom.
This explains the end of Wagner.
What’s the ostensible reason that someone on the ground was taking video of the plane at the same moment that it fell out of the sky?
Presumably because it was falling from the sky, having been hit moments before by an anti-aircraft missile.
Yeah but where was it? Maybe it was the middle of nowhere. I guess if it’s an innocent reason it had to happen over a place with enough people with cellphones that can whip them out quickly.
Yes, he was on the plane and is dead.
You can see in the video that it is the middle of nowhere, and the person in question was not very good at following a falling plane. OK, it was 6 o’clock in the afternoon, this being Russia, he was probably drunk, that does not make that task easier. But everybody has phones with cameras nowadays, and most people seem to have the reflex of recording everything unusual, probably hoping to get famous on some social media platform. I see nothing unusual in this regard.
Quote from the article:
Keir Giles, a Russia expert with the international affairs think-tank Chatham House, had urged caution about reports of Prigozhin’s death. He said “multiple individuals have changed their name to Yevgeniy Prigozhin, as part of his efforts to obfuscate his travels.”
It was near Tver, on the path between Moscow and St Petersburg in the more populated west of the country. Look on Google Maps - there’s plenty of agricultural land use there. We’re not talking about distant uninhabited Siberia.
Well, we’ll have to wait and see if it’s all an elaborate hoax. I’ve read lots of Russian commentary, from both pro and anti-Prigozhin sources, and I’ve not seen any of them claiming that he’s still alive.
I would think that hitting one out of two planes with anti-aircraft fire for a target that had to be anticipating some kind of attempt would not be certain enough.
I suppose it could also have been a bomb that was planted on the plane.