I don't think Putin would resort to such a thing due to his old relationship with him, and his success on African fronts. Putin seems like a forgiving man.
The idea that the Russian government is in anyway behind this event is utterly laughable. If the Kremlin wanted to get rid of the man they had every legal reason to hang him up by his @!?*&# in public for all to throw tomatoes at post his mutiny. The Russian people would have bought tickets. His public treason gave all necessary grounds for life in prison at the very least. Only the West could come up with the idea that Putin waited 3 months, got him in mid air - over Moscow of all places - and killed 10 fellow Russians just to do what could have been done legally months ago. If needs must he could be made to fall down stairs at his apartment or have a heart attack in the bath if they really wanted to do it this way. I mean really...
As for the old story that Prigozhin and Putin were close associates its even more absurd than Putin being palls with Abramovich. To my knowledge the whole legend created in the West rests on a single photograph that Prigozhin engineered where he served Putin once at table and then went on to claim a relationship in true narcissistic, parasitic terms which he then leveraged to gain some kind of hold over military procurement relating to catering contracts. My understanding is that Putin had no idea who he was when the picture was taken and they had no direct relationship after that. Putin's approach has always been neither to confirm nor deny - i.e. do not lower the office I represent by getting involved in whatever lies are told about me personally - hence the vacuum that the West uses to create these grotesque fables.
As we wait confirmation one way or the other, I cant help but think of the 1961 assassination of the then Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjöld, who was targeted for elimination when the plane he was flying in was shot down - killing 15 others on board. Hammarskjöld was arguably the only - and certainly the last - independent minded UN SG and he dared to oppose the West's activities in the
Belgian Congo as they fought t
o maintain control over the Uranium there post independence. Though they are quite different people, my money is this killing - if it has happened - has far more to do with Africa than Ukraine. The Ukis wouldn't have the skill or daring to pull this off - it has
CIA written large as with the killing of Hammarskjöld (everyone else aboard was burnt beyond recognition whilst Hammarskjöld's body was found badly mutilated but without any sign of flame damage at all. The plane crashed at 0:15am but Hammarskjöld’s wristwatch stopped at 3:55am, suggesting he experienced quite another story. He was also found with a playing card stuffed into his shirt collar.)
Hammarskjöld at the 1961 crash site showing the mutilation to his body and a playing card in shirt collar.
Ukraine Victory day meets Putin did it cover story meets are you watching Africa - we still know how to do this to you, do you remember who's really in charge....?
More Niger than Nikopol...
