Yevgeny Prigozhin Dies Third Time
Yevgeny Prigozhin is officially dead.
Figuratively, he died on the weekend of June 24, when he tried to overthrow Russia's military command. He died literally exactly two months later when a plane he was on, along with the Wagner Group's entire top leadership, fell out of the sky north of Moscow. On Sunday, he died a third time, this time officially.
Although Russian officials confirmed that all passengers aboard the plane were killed (something which was obvious from crash site footage), and
I certainly wouldn’t mind a further demoralizing effect on Russian troops and middle level commanders who are being thrown into the slaughterhouse…
I guess the KISS version of the story is that some device onboard the plane exploded due to a malfunction.
A slightly less likely in most cases (though maybe equally likely in this one) is that someone placed a device onto the plane that exploded while it was in flight.
But my favorite conjecture (though the least likely) is that he used this to somehow fake his own death in a way that allows him to disappear (for a while anyway).
To be clear I don’t like him any more than I like Putin. But somehow the idea of somebody pulling one over on old Pootie-Poot (as W used to call him) just makes me smile a bit. Even in the midst of all this morbid stuff.