(August 24, 2023 at 9:55 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: I am surprised he was actually dumb enough to deliver himself into Putin’s hands. He was just a brutal thug, but I didn’t think he was actually that stupid. I would be curious to know what Putin offered to lure him to Moscow, or if in fact he came against his will or came already dead, or he was just resigned to the fact that unless he wanted to eek out a few more month like a rat bolting from hole to hole one step ahead of FSB/KGB assassin squads, he was dead anyway and just wanted to get it over with.
Maybe as Hitler had done with Rommel, Putin offered to not touch his family if he consented to actively collaborated in the death Putin planned for him. Given the fact that Putin delivered a backhanded eulogy and a wreath to his family, I suspect that is what happened.
I think Prig thought he might be able to rescue African ops -- and of course the sideline gigs Wagner had there with gold and other extractables -- in order to maintain an income stream that was being cut off by government investigations into Wagner finances. Kremlin funding was down the shitter, but maybe we can smuggle gold or wood or diamonds to keep it all afloat? I mean, a man's gotta eat.
You might be right that he was offered the Family Meal Deal, but was Prigozhin stupid enough to believe that?
In any event, Prig was stupid to trust any Russian airspace -- or promise -- at all.
