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This is the country that they imagine Ukraine would want to be a part of were it not for the inconvenient Nazis in their midst?

I reckon he's gone to South America to live the rest of his days and he wasn't killed in the crash.

I doubt that would work, at least not with Ukrainians anyway....Wagner ( like Putin ) have more than burnt their bridges in Ukraine. We will have to wait and see what happens..in the past there're were plenty of instances of Wagnerite's attacking regular Russian soldiers, and how that's going to play out in future remains to be seen. For sure, there's no love lost between the two groups.

This hisbsecond jet had some odd flights but on the day of the crash it's last flight was from St Petersburg to unknown.

Then today from Moscow to Azerbaijan.

He would have had something that he thought was keeping him safe, and it would have been a little more than Putin giving him assurances to that end. It wouldn't make any sense otherwise. He was a man who'd been in and around warzones for years, leading a band of bloodthirsty mercenaries and avoided death throughout all of that, and isn't even to mention his previous stint in prison. He wasn't going to, due to ego or whatever else, suddenly cop the naiveté of a small child when dealing with Putin, who he'd just led a march against (or perhaps more accurately, Putin's military officials). He'd have known exactly how the man operates - he'd been around it for years, and was in a time when instances of people 'randomly' falling out of windows was at a real high. He'd have known full well to be highly wary for pretty much as long as Putin was in power. Therefore, my conclusion - the insurance policy he thought he had failed, and failed spectacularly.

I honestly don't know what's going to happen or what form it will take. There's posters on here who say that without Prigozhin, Wagner will just fall apart, seeing as they are basically just mercenaries', for hire to the highest bidder ( and could that be Putin now?) Or could the power behind Prigozhin ( for sure, there's some one there, behind the scenes.) emerge and hold the whole thing together? And of course, you will get some who were dedicated followers of Prigozhin, and will not take his death lying down. And these will be completely un-predictable. I would not be surprised to see many senior ( and not so senior) Russian officers and commanders taken out, especially if at any stage they had crossed Prigozhin. It goes without saying that if Shoigu or Gerasimov got in their sight's, it would be game over. They know only two well how things work in Putin's Russia.

Wagner are, above all, soldiers of fortune. Some could possibly be paid off or else told to stay the F out of Russia. Worth remembering that Wagner got a good deal of its arms from the Russian government (remember Prigozhin ranting a few months ago about Moscow not sending ammo). Even if they had the gear, a good number of their men are over in Africa right now, so they've probably not got the petrol to get from there to Moscow, even if they wanted to. That's not to mention that Putin would be keen not to get blindsided twice by a stunt like that.

No, I think it's fair to say that if this was a hit on Prigozhin, ordered by Putin, Putin will be getting little to no blowback directly from it.

Why are posting your opinion as fact when just a few posts ago your ask what is going on.

That Hill 166 chatter is looking more promising.

Zelensky awarding a 75 year old Japanese volunteer who came to Kharkiv at the beginning of the war and has been cooking free meals for the residents every day since.

"Fuminori Tsuchiko is a 75-year-old Japanese volunteer who has come to Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion to help those who had to live in the Kharkiv metro, hiding from shelling and bombs. For some time, he lived with them underground – he’s been buying and giving away product packages (e.g., with groceries) and entertaining children. 

Time passed, and Fuminory decided to sell his house in Japan and move to Saltivka, one of the most damaged by Russian attacks neighborhoods in Kharkiv. Here, with the help of Ukrainian and Japanese charities, he opened a volunteer cafe, where, to this day, he has been providing hot meals to locals. 

“I like everything in Kharkiv. People here are very kind. I’m staying here forever because I want to help them. Glory to Ukraine!” says Fuminori. "

He may well have thought given his private army and his vast wealth Putin would not dare touch him. Whatever scenario is true, his hubris was ultimately his undoing. Given his background he should have known you can't trust anybody in that world, least of all Putin no matter what hand you feel you have to play. He should have stayed out of Russia. Putin might still send people after him but with his vast wealth he could have made it more difficult for Putin to get him.

A fascinating aspect of this is how Putin is making no attempt to disguise he is fronting up a mafia state, even from his own people.

It's very much along the lines of Stalin's purges and Hitler's 'Night of the Long Knives'.