Wednesday, August 23

Hopefully it was an accident, not sabotage or assassination.

 You'd hate to see this war escalate further... Some Wicked This Way Comes.

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Prigozhin Listed as Passenger on Plane That Crashed, Killing All 10 Aboard

Russian authorities did not confirm whether Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner mercenary leader, was on board when the jet crashed near Moscow.

Frustrated over the country’s military leadership, Mr. Prigozhin, the outspoken tycoon who built the private paramilitary force that has fought on Russia’s behalf in Ukraine and across Africa, instigated a short rebellion two months ago with his Wagner forces that posed a grave threat to the government of President Vladimir V. Putin. Despite his actions, he has appeared to move about freely in the mutiny’s aftermath, including meeting with Mr. Putin on June 29.  Mr. Prigozhin insisted that his mutiny was not aimed at Mr. Putin, but at the defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu, and Russia’s top uniformed military officers, who he said were bungling the war in Ukraine. For months, he had complained publicly and profanely that they were incompetents and back-stabbers, while claiming that Wagner deserved credit for battlefield successes.

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First the pipeline, then then dam, now this...   Who is behind such evil over there, and when will it end??  It's hard to keep score with a scorecard;  all the more reason the United States should not be mixed-up in this business.