• FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    I was sad when Yevgeny Prigozhin (leader of Wagner Group) was killed off, because if his coup was successful we could have seen less bloodshed and a sooner close of the war.

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      8 days ago

      Probably, since there’d be no decision to retroactively justify, if it was a new ruler. Of course, Pregozhin was much more of a hardliner than Putin, so a lot of people watching were less than exited about him as god-king.

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        7 days ago

        Prigozhin was not entirely collected in his mind. He was perhaps a military leader but that’s it. I watched with fascination at that “march on Moscow” unfolded but it isn’t surprising that it failed.

        I wondered what they had on him to hold him in place until the absurd plane blowup assassination.