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Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner chief presumed dead after Russia plane crash.
Decided not to delete this post due to the many comments and discussions.
Wow, I’ve been browsing Twitter, Reddit and Lemmy for the past few hours. I’m surprised to see such breaking news first in Lemmy instead of Twitter or Reddit.
Awesome! Hope the Fidiverse keeps on growing to become bigger than Reddit and Twitter.
Look at me
Lemmy is the frontpage of the internet now
Reddit hot sorts more by popular, so things take a long time to rise up.
Lemmy hot seems to be (too much) biased to new. Can be a bad thing because it looks like things don't get popular. They do but you don't see it by hot, you see it by top 12 hour.
Early 2010s Reddit was so addicting, if there was something in the world it was on the front page in 15 minutes. I remember being excited to check on Reddit after waking up to see that was the event of the day.
After 2016 the algo was screwed up and it became a cesspool of reposts and news were late to show up.
Lotta windows in airplanes.
Tragically the plane crashed into a surface to air missile.
Edit: yeah, this is actually what happened, no subtlety here, damn.
Like, fucking literally.
"Crash" my ass, BBC, you say it got shot down in the article, how is that not a more accurate and sensational headline?
"Prigozhin got blown the fuck up, like everyone knew he would the moment he pussed out, the Nazi coward."
He needed to take Moscow, only chance he had to survive.
I'm honestly surprised that he lasted this long
I feel like when the attempted coup fizzled out there was a Russia expert who predicted he's be dead within 90 days. Sounds like that guy was right.
Honestly didn't need to be a expert on Russia to predict that
One of the cardinal rules of power struggles is "If you're gonna shoot for the king, don't miss."
Man didn't even miss, he just got scared halfway through
From what I gather, he backed down because all his top men's families were being threatened. Prigozhin's family was kept safe, of course, but I don't think they expected Russia to threaten the families of those further down the ladder.
This all just makes him seem naive and unprepared for the position he was in.
The guy wasn't stupid. He knew going against Putin meant death if he failed. At some point during his attempted coup, he realised it wasn't going to work and was faced with a choice: die now, or "back down" to scheme his way out of an almost certain death later. Turns out he couldn't. ¯\_༼ •́ ͜ʖ •̀ ༽_/¯ Oh well, nothing of value was lost.
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Oh, and fuck Putin.
I also don't have anything to add other than that I really appreciate comments who pay respects to details of other comments. I don't know, just makes me happy, so thank you for that!
Oh, and fuck this fucking asshole named Putin, may he die a painful and slow death.
Damn I was hoping he would be able to cause more chaos inside Russia before Putin had him killed.
Hey Putin! I heard Trump talking shit about you.
To think he avoided drinking polonium tea and falling out of a window and self inflicted gunshot wound to the head for all this time just to die in a freak tragic accident.
Reports are that Moscow's anti-air fired on the jet..... "accidentally."
I wonder if there is a correlation between drop height and importance of the persons he's killing.
Oh that's why I fell over my kids' toys. I'm unimportant but it WAS Putin!
World’s most expected accident victim.
I’m so shocked right now. He didn’t fall out of a window?
I mean it's pretty similar to a really high window
Kind of interesting to note how the United States deals with an attempted coup versus Russia.
I think we all saw this coming.
He should have gone all the way when he started the mutiny against Putin. He would be dead either way but at least he had the chance to take Hitler's disciple with him to hell.
His fate was sealed when he (very briefly) went up against Putin. Right then and there he had a target on his head.
Prigozhin allegedly had a massive influence on 2016 USA elections with his troll farms.
I don't think Kremlin gave up on the 2024 elections, it's just now they have Musk.
A blind man could have seen that coming.
Selenskyj was right: Prigozhin will be dead after two months. And he isn't the only hardliner. I think within the last month six out of ten of the hardest hardliners fell out of the window. Or out of the sky.
Seems like Putin is currently liquidating the hardliners so there will be no negative feed back when he ends his "special operation" in a couple of weeks. Message at home will be: Wow, we did great, nobody objects and the world is in awe! And who disagrees will find an open window to jump through...
Checklist to become an accident in Russia.
So he releases a video of himself in Africa. Then a plane with his name on the roster flies from Belarus to Moscow gets shot down. Anyone know if any planes belonging to Wagner flew from Africa to Belarus recently? This might be trick.
The likelihood he was anywhere near the location where he was filmed is slim to none. These guys are always moving after they record something, and are long gone by the time it is released.
Why he was dumb enough to re enter Russian airspace is a separate matter.
Good.
He was a fucking dumbass piece of shit who deserves this for not following through on his coup.
This is not surprising at all lmao.
Took longer than I expected. Hopefully the same thing happens to Putin next.
The airplane itself mysteriously fell out of a window.
Thoughts and prayers
Where, oh where are all of our apologists?
Maybe still figuring out what the "talking points" will be?
We're all waiting for the inevitable bullshit.
Of all the planes in the country he just happened to get on the one that lost a wing. Terrible luck!
[Thick Russian accent]: Foolish man, should not have gotten on a private plane, bad reputation private planes have. Very unsafe in these parts. Oh well, accidents happen...
The thing I find strange about this is, why was he in Russia to begin with? I thought he was last seen in Africa just a couple days ago. How'd he end up on a plane flying between Moscow and St. Petersburg?
I'm not sure but I think they might have some airports in Africa.
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