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Live updates: Wagner’s Yevgeniy Prigozhin believed to be aboard crashed plane in Russia
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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It's astounding that Prigozhin was so naive as to think that he could attempt a coup against Putin, and then simply retire in exile to Belarus. Everybody knew something like this would happen, except Prigozhin himself apparently. People have suffered 'unfortunate accidents' at the hands of Putin for far less.
why would anyone think he was looking to retire