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Furbag , to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

To think he avoided drinking polonium tea and falling out of a window and self inflicted gunshot wound to the head for all this time just to die in a freak tragic accident.

Corran1138 ,

Reports are that Moscow’s anti-air fired on the jet… “accidentally.”

efstajas ,

Really? Got a source for that?

Corkyskog ,

Supposedly this.

I haven’t reviewed the veracity myself, I never do until the dust settles. It’s usually a waste of time unless you’re directly impacted.

mayonaise_met ,

*self-inflicted gunshot to the back of his head

PlantDadManGuy ,

Right, definitely a total “accident” How very sad, comrade. If only the pilot had checked for leaking oil lines on the motors before takeoff…

uis ,
@uis@lemmy.world avatar

He also avoided Novice. Lucky him.

boatswain ,

Kinda seems like they threw the whole plane out the window of the plane.

0Xero0 ,
@0Xero0@lemmy.world avatar

I love how anyone who is against Putin always gets into “accidents”

ShimmeringKoi , to worldnews in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
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altima_neo , to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
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I think we all saw this coming.

Asymptote ,

Wtf was he thinking, flying back into Russia after being given an out? 😂

Rose ,

Where else could he be? The West wouldn’t let him cross, while any ally of Russia would cooperate with Putin. Not that it even has to be an ally after all the assassinations in Europe.

bobman ,

He has more than enough money to escape to south america and never be heard from again.

Rose , (edited )

South American countries are on good terms with Putin, being some of the few that let any Russian enter visa-free. Taking him out would be almost as easy in those countries.

bobman ,

South America is a big place with lots of nooks and crannies and different cultures to hide in and blend with.

I’m sure someone as wealthy as Prigo could’ve lived a very modest lifestyle without ever having to work again and staying incognito for the rest of his days in South America. If South America is really too dangerous (it isn’t) then he also has Asia. There are so many options for rich people it’s insane.

stebo02 ,
@stebo02@sopuli.xyz avatar

did he ever get out of Russia though?

afraid_of_zombies ,

Welcome to Hotel Russia-onia, you can check out but you can never leave.

thereisalamp ,

Wasn’t he in Belarus recently, threatening to take a large contingent of the Wagner group to “sightsee” in Poland?

skillissuer ,
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he was coming back from africa that day, day before he released a video yelling about something in sahel

before that, after mutiny he was effectively exiled to belarus

Rose ,

The exile was a lie. He constantly flew back and forth, and even attended a summit hosted by Putin.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Hey what is the last thing that went thru his mind?

Metal.

Agent641 ,

Jetfuel

Badass_panda ,

Not me, I thought he was going to be overtaken with remorse and bludgeon himself to death from behind in a tragic suicide.

chronicledmonocle ,

After shooting himself in the back of the head twice, then jumping out the window.

Vub , to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

Yay! 🥳 So “denazifying” Ukraine while having SS/nazi tattoos says everything about Wagner, Russia, Putin and all of these fascist cowards. Rest in piss, nazi scum!

WittyProfileName2 , to worldnews in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
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2 months ago:

In exchange, he gets to not be dead for a while.

Prigozhin should probably be careful touching doorknobs for a while regardless.

Does it count as calling it if I got the method of assassination wrong?

drbluefall ,
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I’d say it counts for at least half-credit.

addie ,
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Don’t think so in this case - we were all expecting him to be assassinated somehow, and the old ‘sushi dinner with a nice cup of tea after’ wasn’t very likely. Should have had a sweepstake on his life expectancy - guessing 60 days would have been pretty impressive.

Dagwood222 ,

No. It’s like ‘Clue.’ Need the room, the suspect, and the weapon or it doesn’t count.

Zagorath ,
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Clue? Like Cluedo but without the reference to “ludo” that makes the name clever?

PreachHard ,

Another casualty of the American market.

Dagwood222 ,

I haven’t a clue

emergencyfood ,

Are you sure you haven’t a clue?

Anonymousllama , to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

Clearly he had a death sentence when he failed in his coup. Why he stayed though is beyond me. Did he think he was window-proof or he’d escape…

Corran1138 ,

He has family in Russia. If he doesn’t get them out, they die painfully. Maybe Pringles had a heart in there somewhere after all.

gonzo0815 ,

Maybe it would have been awkward if he fell out of a window immediately after the coup so they had to wait for him to take a plane.

Bluefalcon , to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

I’m so shocked right now. He didn’t fall out of a window?

imgonnatrythis ,

They are getting more creative…

teamevil ,

I mean it’s pretty similar to a really high window

Corran1138 ,

How do you know the plane didn’t have a nice window on it?

Niggling__Niggard , (edited )

The plane crashed after jumping out of a window.

Reygle ,
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Plot twist: the stewardess had a parachute, “fell” out window after hearing “red team go”.

Willer ,

He survived the crash, and on the way to the hospital he fell out of a window.

ImpossibleRubiksCube ,

No, no. His plane fell out of a window. It’s different.

skillissuer ,
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Everyone was seated next to a window

seapat , to worldnews in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

But did the plane have windows?

pingveno ,

No, it was running Linux.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Then it wouldn’t have crashed.

Probably running Windows Embedded and went for an update. An hour is long time to wait to get flight control back.

emergencyfood ,

Now I wonder, what happens if an aircraft or control tower is running Windows 10 and it decides to update mid-flight?

420blazeit69 ,

That’s how you know it didn’t just crash

pingveno ,

Exactly!

Honytawk ,

It never took flight in the first place because a repository was incompatible with an other one, so they had to purge everything before they could commence.

vlad76 ,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Kernel Panic!

loz ,

Probably had an Nvidia card.

chahk ,

It crashed, so of course it ran Windows.

Sasuke , to worldnews in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
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tiny dancer playing softly in the background . . .

He just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say. Whether you agreed or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that.

JamesConeZone ,
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jballs , to news in Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin 'on board' crashed Russian plane
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Dammit, I had plutonium tea on my bingo card.

suction , to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

Imagine living in Russia and pretending it’s fine to just go about your day instead of marching on the Kreml with millions of others. Russians will have a very hard time in the world in the next couple of decades, similar to Germans after WW2.

ademir ,
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I agree. Just like the Americans.

Badass_panda ,

Hate to say it but geopolitical, America’s got a brighter future than just about anyone else in the world right now. Something to say for lots of reserves of your own resources, your own continent containing only healthy, friendly trade allies and demography that isn’t in the midst of collapse.

Knowing America we’ll burn the place down to spite ourselves, but hey

Mdotaut801 , to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

Yes. Complete and total accident. Yes. Of course. Tragic.

freecandy ,

Russia shot it down intentionally and announced it. Its in like the first sentence or two of the article.

uiiiq ,

No it isn’t, read again. That’s a claim by “Wagner-linked Telegram channel”. It can hardly be trusted. No official statement from Putin, investigation is ongoing.

Hyperi0n ,

There has been video of Russian AA shooting the plane down though.

uiiiq ,

Would you mind sharing the video? I didn’t see any. Afaik the most probable cause is a bomb on the deck.

Hyperi0n ,

They are on Twitter and I don’t know how to link them.

But the story is still very early with most saying he isn’t even dead.

AnUnusualRelic ,
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You can’t really expect to just throw several tons of steel and assorted stuff in the air and not have it fall back down. That’s why lighter than air always wins.

BlueMagaChud , to worldnews in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia
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lmao, you know he had to do it to him

Stanwich , to world in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

Hey Putin! I heard Trump talking shit about you.

Buddahriffic ,

The whole Western political apperatus has been saying Putin doesn’t have the guts to release any of the compromat he holds on them and that he needs them more than they need him.

arc , to worldnews in Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia

I’m fully expecting Russian media to explain how those evil Ukranians sneaked a missile battery or a fighter jet into Moscow airspace and shot down a plane that just happened to contained Putin’s mortal enemies.

GarbageShoot ,

I think it’s usually Ukrainian media making those spurious claims, like about that Russian prison that got hit or, idk, I think there was a pipeline or something that was blown up they instantly blamed on Russia

Blake ,

I think that was western media, when that one Russian pipeline blew up and they were all saying it was Russia who blew it up, like lmao why would they blow up their own infrastructure that was actively generating them revenue? It was very clearly blown up by either Ukraine or NATO to force the EU to use less Russian gas or whatever.

GarbageShoot ,

Sorry, I was being facetious there. Yes, it was the Nord Stream pipeline that Russia used to sell gas to Europe, which was 4 lines, of which 3 were destroyed. My joke was that the pipeline was all over the news (along with those accusations) for a good while, unlike the prison bombing which was basically a one-cycle story.

extant ,

I was expecting them to say the plane fell out of a window.

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