Multiple media reports are saying that Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in Russia. For those who may be unfamiliar with the name, Progozhin was the leader (and owner?) of the Wagner Group. This is a significant military group that takes on military actions for Russia.
For those who may have forgotten, in late June, Prigozhin initiated what some neocons in the West called the most significant challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime in his 23 years in power.
After beginning to march his 25,000-strong mercenary forces towards Moscow, Prigozhin abruptly ended the operation and headed into exile in Belarus. There was significant speculation that the CIA was involved in this operation. None of that has been proved. What really happened is unknown.
Prigozhin is an apex gremlin. No one knows how to play gremlin mind games against the West better than Yevgeny Prigozhin. He’s a little bit like a less refined Oleg Deripaska, and much scruffier.
Also remember, in February 2018, Prigozhin was one of 13 Russians indicted by Andrew Weissmann and Rod Rosenstein for interfering in the 2016 election. Of course, this was another fake indictment. The case was dropped when a law firm showed up in court for one of the defendants. The DOJ claimed that national security interests forced them to drop the case.
Here’s an interesting insight from someone who has good connections in St Petersburg.
Back in April of this year, a blogger in St Pete named Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) was killed by a bomb disguised as a gift for his work reporting on behalf of free people in Russia. The bomb was inside a bust of Tatarsky given to him shortly before he was giving a speech in a cafe. A 26-year-old woman named Darya Trepova gave him the gift; she was arrested and disappeared.
Speculation, strong speculation, was that the cafe bomb was a CIA operation, because Tatarsky was considered an enemy of Ukraine. His death was a hit to the pro-Russia morale inside the region. The target, Vladlen Tatarsky, and the head of the Wagner mercenary military units, Yevgeny Prigozhin, were good friends.
Prigozhin wanted to go avenge Tatarsky’s death and remove any limits on rules of war/engagement in Ukraine. Prigozhin was willing to create massive civilian casualties in his revenge operation against the Ukraine military (lots of Nazi’s) and the CIA operatives that work with them.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said no and told/warned his generals and Russian regular military officers they were to inform Wagner that widespread collateral damage and revenge was not okay. Prigozhin was angry, very angry about this; he wanted blood. However, Prigozhin is also a snarky gremlin, don’t forget this, so any operation that could injure or trick the CIA would be a good thing. Thus, came the warning to me to ignore the front face of what the Western world would present in the past few days.
Prigozhin was/is angry and frustrated with Vladimir Putin, and Prigozhin was/is angry at the CIA.
Was the Prigozhin/Wagner operation an internal false flag intended to give the illusion of something (rebellion) while actually taking advantage of the stupidity of the West (CIA)?
With all of this in mind and with the idea that Progozhin was allowed to roam free after the supposed coup attempt, is this another attempt to fool the idiots at the CIA? Supposedly Prigozhin was returning to St Petersburg after a series of meetings in Moscow.
It would seem that there are endless possibilities about what really happened in Russia on Wednesday.
♦ Prigozhin completed his meetings in Moscow and was heading home to Peter when an unfortunate accident led to his plane crashing.
♦ Prigozhin completed his meetings in Moscow and was heading home to Peter when the Russian military leaders decided to kill him.
♦ Prigozhin completed his meetings in Moscow and was detained by Putin allies. Then the return flight was destroyed to disappear him.
♦ Prigozhin completed his meetings in Moscow and was returning to Peter when a successful retaliatory CIA operation killed him.
♦ Prigozhin completed his meetings in Moscow and is now very much alive and retired with no one looking for him.
♦ Prigozhin was never in Moscow and is very much alive and retired with no one looking for him.
I am sure if we think hard enough we could come up more such possibilities. One thing we are certain of is that a plane crashed.
⚡️ Самолёт, который разбился в Тверской области, принадлежит Евгению Пригожину, утверждают издание Baza и журналистка Ксения Собчак. На борту бизнес-джета Embraer, как утверждается, были 7 человек, они погибли.
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— ЭХО (@echofm_online) August 23, 2023
Regardless, as one wit said, I am sure the funeral will be superb.