• Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.ee
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    3 years ago

    Pretty weak form of identification. Would be much more certain if the body had something Prigozhin is known to have rather than the body lacking something Prigozhin is known to lack.

    Still, I think we all kinda knew he was dead the moment he was like “Actually instead of instigating a civil war in Russia I’m going to take this very generous deal they offered me where my treachery sees almost no repercussions whatsoever.”

    • SuckMyWang@lemmy.world
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      3 years ago

      Na he’s fine. The whole lead up to the “coup attempt” was lame. He started talking shit about Putin and everyone thought “how is he getting away with this?” Putin pays his bills too so there’s even more reason not to on top of it. Na, Putin made a deal with Prigozhin to let him talk shit about him publicly and stage a coup. In return Putin could make it look like he killed him so no one else would try it and Prigozhin gets to fade off into folklore drinking beers on a beach somewhere. Repositioning troops was an added bonus. The “coup” was a joke. If it was real a lot more Russian army would have made an attempt to stop it but no one did under putins orders. This is all pure speculation and I really have no knowledge of military tactics or geopolitics. TLDR: talking out my ass

      • bobman@unilem.org
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        3 years ago

        You really live in a fantasy world, don’t you?

        TLDR: talking out my ass

        Lol, at least you’re honest.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      Honestly, he probably wasn’t dead at that moment. He could have been fine if he could have shut the fuck up. He’d likely be watched and essentially on house arrest for the rest of his life, but he could have lived. Anyway, good riddance. He was an evil bastard. Hopefully we get to say goodbye to Putin sometime soon too.

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    He seems like the sort of person who might keep a stack of bodies with the appropriate missing finger in the freezer for reasons.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    He was identified by a missing part of his finger on his left hand, an injury suffered while he served time in a penal colony decades ago

    I’ve seen this movie.

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        3 years ago

        I’ll get you one in 5 minutes, might be a little bit wet still tho, but it’s the freshest finger this side of Moscow.

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    3 years ago

    You want a finger? I can get you a finger, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.

    ~ Walter Sobchak

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      3 years ago

      These fucking amateurs… They send us a toe, we’re supposed to shit ourselves with fear.

  • Agamemnon@lemmy.world
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    3 years ago

    Everyone should be aware that the final say is provided by Putin. And is a foregone conclusion - for purely tactical and propaganda reasons, the official version will be that Prigozhin is dead. And nobody will contest that - least of all Prigozhin himself.

  • Jode@midwest.social
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    3 years ago

    It’s not like it would be completely unheard of to lose a finger after being in a small jet that got hit by a missile that then hurtled 30k ft to the ground and exploded.

  • Myro@lemm.ee
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    3 years ago

    I guess we are not going to know for sure for a long time.