It would be interesting to know who was on that second wagner plane that landed in Azerbaijan. Anyone concerned with their personal safety might put their name on the passenger list of one plane but not take it to sow confusion. He is most likely dead, but it would not be a shock if it is infact all staged. He did it before in 2019
So America now on the f16 wagon. Hopefully we can see them in action by next summer. Unfortunately ATACMS are proving hard to get.
I don't think they care about escalation I think they know regular HIMARS can't hit mainland China from Taiwan so if they deleted their stock China might see an opportunity.
Well, that begs the question of what information Russian people are actually receiving. Do they hear about people randomly falling out of windows? I heard that the Prigozhin story only got 40 seconds of coverage on Russia's main news channel.
Well it would be one of the biggest events in US Political history, if having gotten the republican nomination, he was rejected by the voters. Because even the Republicans are not 100% behind him.
No, would not work either, because of the vast wealth he steals in Africa, half belongs automatically to Putin. And if anything, this was one of the reasons for the delay in his execution. ( the other of course being that he wanted to make sure of his own personal safety, that was paramount, and took several weeks of investigations, covering all the bases before he gave the kill order)
Russia has no history of democracy or democratic institutions
Maybe the second plane was the decoy that Prigozhin was pretending to be on. But the Russians knew and blew up the correct plane.
This. Russia was never a democracy, it went from a kingdom to a totalitarian socialist regime in 1917, a kleptocracy in the 90s, and a dictatorship under Putin.
Communist*
Socialist**
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
That's some photo. Looks like one of those old "charge of the light brigade" era paintings
I'd also say Russia was drunk for the 90s (Yeltsin)
Lets see how this goes
Oh boy. I can't wait to cast my vote in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea!
Russia has not had proper experience with democracy but interestingly the Soviets did hold a vote in 1917 when they assumed power fully. It also seems to have been relatively fair in that the Soviets lost badly. Obviously they decided not to have elections again after that and did not respect the results.
Just like NK is known as the democratic people’s Republic of Korea, there’s nothing democratic about them. Russia was communist not socialist during that time.
Communists/socialists love Democracy once you vote the right way.
Some balls cutting them open with an angle grinder. I wonder how effective the anti-armor submunitions are dropped from a drone. We'll probably see soon enough.
Comments on Russian social media and even in vox pops on the streets had people saying they weren't remotely surprised to hear that Prigozhin is now dead. We have this bizarre scenario of most people in Russia knowing they are living in a mafia state with Putin as a mafia boss and yet nobody can actually articulate this there in concrete terms.
I'd say many Russians are aware of how their leadership operates, and a significant number of them approve of it.
From Twitter post (link won't work)
Heineken announces a TOTAL loss of their entire multi-billion dollar Russian operation. Sold for nothing to a Putin proxy.
EVERY Russian investment boom ends the same - EVERYTHING Is stolen and handed to the ruling regime.
In fairness the russian company have to keep everyone employed, 1800, for 3 years. so it was a responsible exit.
Yes.
"We are happy we found a suitable buyer. We believe it is a reliable party...We are happy this process comes to an end and to be able to leave Russia," he added.
Heineken had seven breweries in Russia and 1,800 employees, who will receive employment guarantees for the next three years.
I wonder is it sad or touching that they still believe in any kind of "guarantees" when it comes to Russia? At this point IMO it operates how I imagine a South American drug cartel might if someone entrusted them with multi-trillions of $ worth of natural resources, a collection of doomsday weapons + a giant military.
I think that may have been true of Nazi Germany as well. People knew full they were living in a gangster state, but somehow convinced themselves it was run by 'respectable' gangsters.
The entire Prigozhin affair is quite revealing in what it says about Russian society. A mercenary with his own private army numbering hundreds of thousands of men threatens to topple the government and then is eliminated by the mafia style President a few weeks later. There is nothing remotely 'normal' about the country.
I cant say I know anything about the Russian psyche but the long trust of their history is lots of bullshit coming from the West, Hitler, Napoleon, the British etc. Then you have the fall of communism and the Yeltsen years aping Germany after WW1. They are certainly going to be primed as a people
Holding on to ensure everyone gets to keep their job and "favourite" beer surely goes against the whole point of sanctions.
Boohoo some Russians lose jobs. How many jobs lost in Ukraine.
So… no foreign investment in russia for the next 100 years ?
How can you operate in a country where there is no reliable legal system? (even ignoring the whole fascist state thing!)
It will be a good while before these "Western" MNCs will be back there in a big way. There will be + already is investment from the Chinese/Turkey/India etc., but I would say caveat emptor!
And a Mafia Dictatorship at that!!!
TLDR version: socialism is the road to communism; during the socialism period you put any dissenting persons in prison/gulags/ground, and when you run out of them you reached communism. Unfortunately the later never happened anywhere.
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