Reflections On The Yevgeny Prigozhin Hit Earlier Today
Yevgeny Prigozhin, flamboyant head of the Russian, Wagner mercenary group, was killed earlier today in a spectacular plane crash northwest of Moscow.
His right-hand man, Dmitry Utkin, also died, along with eight others onboard.
This was a targeted assassination, that is clear.
Speculation as to who is behind it, and the possible motivations, as well as the actual mechanics of the plane’s destruction, cover the waterfront.
Though the cause of the crash remains publicly undisclosed, early speculation in the press favors either a bomb onboard, or a missile strike. Local people near the crash site allegedly reported hearing explosions in the sky consistent with anti-aircraft weaponry.
As to who did it, there are at least the following possibilities and motives:
a shootdown on Vladimir Putin’s orders, as cold revenge for the Wagner Group’s military mutiny on June 23-24
Ukrainian operatives, as payback for the Wagner Group’s battlefield victories in the Special Military Operation against the Ukrainian army
the Russian Air Force independently , as payback for the Russian military aircraft shot down and pilots killed, during the Wagner Group’s abortive mutiny two months ago
the Pentagon/CIA/France/MI-6/NATO to cripple the Wagner Group as it positions forces along the Polish border, as well as in Mali, where another war may be brewing in neighboring Niger
Another, more Machiavellian gambit occurs to me. Russian human and signals intelligence are very good. It is possible that the Kremlin had detected an active assassination plot against Prigozhin, and let it proceed without either warning Prigozhin or disrupting the plot.
In this way, Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin: a) would be rid of a mutinous, loose cannon with thousands of men under arms, in the person of Yevgeny Prigozhin; and b) would also uncover an active assassination network within Russia, following its tentacles wherever they may extend, inside Russia and without; and c) would have plausible deniability, in that the plot was not theirs, albeit that it served two of their national security interests.
Whatever the case may be, my impression of Vladimir Putin is that he is a man whom you simply do not cross. You absolutely do not go behind his back, and you do not undercut him.
Yevgeny Prigozhin learned a fatally hard lesson, whoever or whatever may ultimately prove to be behind his demise, and whatever their motives may have been.
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