This was top tier lols for me after an extremely stressful 36 hours. Putting “go to Belarus” in quotes is killer lol for some reason, and putting it alongside the ad being ripped down quadruples the effect. This was top tier lols for me after an extremely stressful 36 hours. Putting “go to Belarus” in quotes is killer lol for some reason, and putting it alongside the ad being ripped down quadruples the effect. In the final analysis, it seems that Prigozhin was drunk, and by the time he sobered up, he said “ugh.”
RT:
The criminal case against Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) founder Evgeny Prigozhin will be dropped and he will leave Russia, the Kremlin announced on Saturday evening.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed that Prigozhin, a Saint Petersburg tycoon who made his initial fortune in catering, “will go to Belarus.”
He added that Wagner’s fighters will not be persecuted, taking into account their efforts on the frontlines of the Ukraine conflict. Peskov explained that President Vladimir Putin’s team “have always respected their exploits.”
PMC contractors who refused to take part in the mutiny – and whole units did not – will be allowed to sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry, Peskov stated.
“Always respected their exploits” is another very funny line, resulting from both a weird translation and Peskov’s particular brand of dry humor (he is sort of like the reverse Donald Trump, in terms of deadpan delivery).
I’m 100% in agreement with not charging any of the troops, as they aren’t responsible for the decisions of their commander. They also didn’t necessarily even know what was going on, and a lot of them bailed once they figured it out.
That said, I think any military or FSB officers that collaborated should be executed. No one has explained to me how Prigozhin was able to waltz right into Southern Command in Rostov, nor has anyone explained why none of the FSB agents around him neutralized him.
In terms of allowing him to go into exile – I think that was for the best. If it was not for the clearly pre-planned nature of the thing, you could say he had a psychotic breakdown. But the fact that he got into the SouthCom base, and was not arrested or shot, means he’d planned this out beforehand. Probably, he got drunk and jumped the gun. Or he had arranged the whole thing in case Putin surrendered. But he definitely did arrange it, starting with the screaming videos months ago.
I said it: we couldn’t know about ammo shortages, but we knew the line was not collapsing. DeepStateMaps showed the line. He claimed it was collapsing, and it wasn’t. So it seems the ammo thing was also a lie, just like it was a lie that the Russian military bombed his base in the Ukraine.
I said privately as soon as I saw that video of him screaming in front of those corpses that he should be assassinated. I didn’t say it publicly, because I didn’t think it was my place to say something like that publicly during the war. A lot of people read this website, and I just didn’t feel comfortable.
This is the headline I published: