Comments on Profile Post by purr1n

Likely sometime after the effects of the polonium start kicking in.

As with all things Ruzzia - 50% chance of total randomness. The rest of 50 % I'd split half between 'falling from penthouse window' treatment and propaganda circus for domestic Ruzzians.

I'm betting on poisoning. It's the Russian way.

Apparently he lives in a building with windows that can't open. My bet is on poisoning. (not that you can't "fall" out of a non-opening window...)

What, not going to take a flier on "discovered in a Jamaican shaman's basement"?

Most likely IMO: all Minsk hotels without windows will be blown up, for which Russia will blame Ukraine.

Didn't you hear, he will have an unfortunate accident. Fell down a flight of stairs into half a dozen knives. And then spontaneously combusted. Truly unfortunate.

He was last seen at the Blackstone HQ in NYC taking the elevator to the top floor..

Likely head to the West, air all the dirty laundry for asylum and unfreezing of London accounts, write a best-selling book, and finally get to be interviewed by Oprah.

I'm surprised he's still alive. News I read has it that Putin was dissuaded from immediate action.

Given that he has survived so far, retribution may not strike for years. He'll be on the list. And those who never forget will be happy to leave it until everybody else has.

(Unless he becomes an immediate danger again)

That it was a false flag to fool the west (Putin feigns defeat to encourage less UKR aid and out actual MoD unreliables) is the only narrative I've heard that makes sense. That Putin just let Wagner off the hook and Prighozin is not dead adds to the evidence.

I don't think he feigned defeat, but then, he wasn't defeated. Embarrassment, he didn't have to feign; it's real.

But I don't entirely buy the idea that Prighozin wasn't stopped by Russian soldiers due to sympathy. It might be because they hadn't been explicitly told to. Or... it might be that they had been told not to?

There's more than meets the eye...

Methinks it might be a cordial tea with senior Wagnerians in Belarus. A bit of suffering may be in order!

Putin hasn't lost. He's banking on western apathy to hold the line and hoping Trump wins the next election.

I don't think anyone, especially Prigozhin himself, thinks he is safe in Belarus. I'd have expected him to be somewhere else by now, though he is persona non grata in much of the west so his options are probably limited.

Prigozhin returning to his offices in Russia wasn’t on my bingo card, however.

Yup. More evidence this was all theater

You were close, @purr1n - he did indeed fall from the sky

*If* he was on board that plane.

I know this is an outside-chance crazy theory, but I'm guessing that Prigozhin has his intelligence sources. What if he didn't board the plane?

In their smoke-and-mirrors-drama world, it is not even impossible that it was all an act and Putin was in on it too.

Crazy ideas, right. Right?

It's a high-drama way of taking someone out. With all the resources at Putin's fingertips, why would he not be a little more subtle? A little less obvious?

Well, I suppose it makes a statement. To the entire world.

Prigozhin embarrassed Putin on a global stage and undermined his power. It took two months but Putin showed the world who is still in charge. Wagner is bringing in Russia money from Africa along with influence and effectively the top three members were offed. Could be possible it may have been staged but I would say its probably doubtful.

I think it more possible that Prigozhin might have received intelligence alerts and not got on the plane.

Possible, albeit not very.

Well, regardless if he is a burnt corpse or chilling in some tropical island now, he is out of the picture. Man was committing war crimes, stoking civil wars, and a terrible human being. Good riddance.

Some people make the world a better place by being part of it. Some people make the world a better place by no longer being part of it. Prigo is certainly in the latter category. So is Putin but I guess we have to wait.