Live updates: Wagner’s Yevgeniy Prigozhin believed to be aboard crashed plane in Russia (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

As this is a developing story, I'm skipping the archive link.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] justdoit@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is every vaguely prominent leader in Russia dumb as rocks? How did he think he’d get away with an attempted coup while leaving the dictator in power?

Did he expect to get points for being bad at a coup?

[-] bluGill@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I think he thought it would succeed and put him in power. When that failed he went mostly silent for a long time, probably trying to figure out how to survive. While it is no surprise to anyone (including him) that he was still a target, I think he made a reasonable (though on hindsight obviously wrong) assumption that things have cleared up enough by now to be worth risking travel.

this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023

91 points (100.0% liked)

World News

22057 readers

16 users here now

Breaking news from around the world.

News that is American but has an international facet may also be posted here.

Guidelines for submissions:

Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
Social media should be a source of last resort.

These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.

For US News, see the US News community.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS