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Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Wow, what are the odds of that happening?

The chief of Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is believed to have been killed in a plane crash, Russian state media reported Wednesday.

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The 62-year old paramilitary leader, once a close confidant of Putin’s, led a short-lived mutiny against the Russian government in late June after spending months vocally criticizing his country’s top brass. His forces, known for their particularly violent battlefield tactics, spearheaded a number of battles for Russia on the Ukrainian front.
-WiscoDave

34 comments:

  1. Dang, lost the pool on him. He lasted longer than I thought he would.

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  2. It was to be expected if the rebellion tale was real and I'm not convinced it was. I think I'll wait and see.
    maxx

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  3. "All on board were killed."
    "This one's still moving!"
    BANG
    "All on board were killed."

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  4. I'm surprised that it took this long.

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    1. It's not easy to get an airplane to fall out of a window...twice.

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  5. Wait, there's a war in Ukraine?

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  6. Better way to go than the long drawn out painful effects of polonium poisoning.

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  7. Dead after a suspicious plane crash, did he have dirt on the Clinton's?

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    1. I think planes are the favorite of the music industry.

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  8. Just taking out the trash. It's hardly uncommon for governments to use plane crashes to clean up their messes.

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    1. You mean like that chick in the Ron Brown plane crash that had a bullet hole between her eyes?

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  9. Pootie just tidying up loose ends...

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  10. I bet he regrets that mutiny shit right about now.

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  11. Reminds me of the person that created obama's birth certificate. Did not end well for them either.

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  12. To quote Stalin, "No man no problem".

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  13. The only other "accident" with an Embraer 600 was a mid air collision. Embraer generally has an excellent safety record. One of them just falling out of the sky is very strange to say the least.

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    1. Well, this one collided with a missile, what are the odds of that?

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  14. Died and went to Tel Aviv. With Jeff Epstein and Jeffs Father In Law Robert Maxwell....and the rest of the gang

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  15. I read it was a missile, but however it happened he’s still dead.
    MadMarlin

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  16. Yeah, he got away with a lot, but when it became known that he has information about Hillary, That was it.

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  17. I'll believe it when the body is truly id'd.

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    1. If I read the article correctly, it implied his name was added to the passenger list later.
      He might be rotting away in a dungeon somewhere, or it was just a convenient way for him to publicly die after he was shot .

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  18. Brazilian made jet with American made engines. Ukraine war sanctions against Russia embargo all maintenance spare parts for both. Russians have been scrounging parts and deferring maintenance on most civil aircraft.

    Might just have been a turbine blade failure after the full power take off.

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    1. Yeah yeah, that's it. Turbine blade failure. That's a good story. Everybody will believe that.

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  19. In yet another odd coincidence the other passengers on the plane were the rest of the top Wagner group generals.

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  20. Putin doesn’t allow enemies to live for long. Why the idiot got on the airplane is a mystery. He had been around long enough to know better.

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  21. Prigozhin screwed up. One thing you don't do with dictators is start a coup then let yourself get talked out of whatever you were going to do with the dictator.

    "When you strike at a king, you must kill him." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson.

    Prigozhin should have gone all the way to the Kremlin, dragged Putin out by his balls, then hung him in Red Square from the gun barrel of a tank. That's the only way to deal with a guy like that.

    Nemo

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  22. Saw the video with the aircraft coming down. Sure looks like elevator failure. Old private pilot here.

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