Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

I was expecting poison, but I guess shooting a plane down worked as well for Didi’s purposes.

I think putin wanted to use Prigozhin’s death to show the Russian state, which is him, can kill anyone deemed a threat in the open, with violence and impunity, and without resorting to measures which may carry the price of disturbing perceived public stability, such as with changes in laws, over police action, etc.

in the open because it shows one could not gain any measure of safety by remaining in the public eye, with violence because the state is the supreme purveyor of violence so once state violence is show to not be out of bounds, then private violence to destabilize the state like those prigozhin attempted can have no chance of success against the greater violence the state always has at its disposal, and impunity so people would not think putin’s exercise of state violence would be tempered by concern for consequences and retribution.