Русский корабль - иди нахуй

[AUS-97HORN 11550]

1 minute ago, Saint Austin said:

Will someone smarter than me say if this is a good thing or a bad thing?

Good in that a certified mass murderer could be dead.

 

Bad in that it tells the rest of the cowed Russian leadership that they absolutely cannot go after Pooty Poot without them, their family, their neighbors and past coworkers are all on the hook if they miss.

[RDCanecutter 25890]

3 minutes ago, Saint Austin said:

Will someone smarter than me say if this is a good thing or a bad thing?

We have lost the most entertaining Orc.

[BamaATL 16009]

1 minute ago, Saint Austin said:

Will someone smarter than me say if this is a good thing or a bad thing?

Probably neither.  It's good the Prigozhin can't be the leader to depose Putin, because he was a complete shitbag of a human, probably worse than Putin.  It's bad that he lead a coup, was stopped and Putin now will have likely gained more control from fear.  

The best news is that when they are busy eating their own it can only help Ukraine.  To be honest, at this point the more they kill themselves the better.  1 down a few more million to go.  

[Eastwood 4394]

3 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

We have lost the most entertaining Orc.

I beg to differ:

http://media.tenor.com/EspMI7AkqwAAAAAC/putin-balloon.gif

[The Dog 43087]

 

[Goredho 17164]

29 minutes ago, deech said:

In fairness, he lived 59 days longer than many expected.

Yeah, but he had to know he was dead within a few months when he just decided to call off his march to Moscow and go home without even trying to see his coup through.  Remember, it wasn't like they were stopped by Russian resistance.  Something put a fear in him worse than his own personal safety/death and he decided to abruptly abort the uprising.

[4th and 5 4903]

[The Dog 43087]

Some early submissions in NAFO Discord:

 

 

[Schulz2.0 28626]

 

[butthurt 1504]

 

 

[Bender Bending Rodriguez 1662]

I'm just glad Russian state media can investigate the cause of the crash and expose Putin once and for all!

[NAVY 6667]

Innovative way to get thrown out of a window 

[4th and 5 4903]

New York Times reports priggy was on passenger list

[Trey3216 15308]

Just now, 4th and 5 said:

New York Times reports priggy was on passenger list

Of course he was.  Haven't you seen Air Force One?  

[NorthLoop 13930]

Curious why pootie waited until now. Maybe he wanted to make sure Wagner was re-distributed the way he wanted before he took total control? 

[MillerEP 30270]

Piggy was on the passenger manifest, so unless he didn’t get on at the last minute he’s dead. I think his death aligns with most of our expectations, that he wouldn’t survive 3 months.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/08/23/wagner-mercenary-boss-yevgeny-prigozhin-killed-in-plane-crash.html

[Al Czervik 1205]

Nsiap 

[butthurt 1504]

[gmr548 16289]

[BrickHorn 18028]

I haven’t been paying close attention. Is there reason to believe Prigozin wasn’t dead long before he stepped on that plane?

[animaltobacco11 107]

Maybe this is a way to have his death faked (be put on the souls manifest of the plane) and go live out his days in Siberia or Uruguay or something?

[The Dog 43087]

Early spin is to blame this on Ukraine. Weird false flag considering the recent history but Russia gonna Russia.

[G650 13195]

Well at least my day is a little brighter now

[The Dog 43087]

 

[Gatorubet 29538]

23 minutes ago, 4th and 5 said:

New York Times reports priggy was on passenger list

“I’m not getting the $78, am I?”

[Brisketexan 103515]

1 minute ago, The Dog said:

 

This.  I wonder if the forces of Putin just declared shooting war on the forces of Wagner.  If so.....

[The Dog 43087]

5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

This.  I wonder if the forces of Putin just declared shooting war on the forces of Wagner.  If so.....

🍿

[Red Five 40274]

[Buzzrock 14779]

This.  I wonder if the forces of Putin just declared shooting war on the forces of Wagner.  If so.....

They did such a good job the first time.

[Brisketexan 103515]

1 minute ago, Buzzrock said:

They did such a good job the first time.

I mean....they did.  They just inexplicably....stopped.  

I bet they learned the folly of THAT course of action.

[dcbc 14235]

40 minutes ago, NAVY said:

Innovative way to get thrown out of a window 

 

[SimonBolivar 10673]

24 minutes ago, animaltobacco11 said:

and go live out his days in Siberia or Uruguay or something?

hmmm Latin American beach country that specializes in steak or -30 degree Siberia that warms up to biting flies in the summer....decisions, decisions.

[Nathan Jessep 147]

38 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Curious why pootie waited until now. Maybe he wanted to make sure Wagner was re-distributed the way he wanted before he took total control? 

I think so. You don’t whack their boss when they’re on the road to Moscow. You do it when they’re in W Africa or Belarus. 

[Rimbo 25223]

1 hour ago, BamaATL said:

WHAT AIRPLANE DOING?

 

no no no, the original is the right idea

 

1 hour ago, Kel Varnsen said:

 

yep

 

1 hour ago, AUS-97HORN said:

Good in that a certified mass murderer could be dead.

 

Bad in that it tells the rest of the cowed Russian leadership that they absolutely cannot go after Pooty Poot without them, their family, their neighbors and past coworkers are all on the hook if they miss.

 

I cannot think of a way in which this could be a bad thing.

1. A mass murderer, who would be even worse than Putin if he were to land a coup, has just died.

2. Putin has split the loyalties of his troops, potentially facing another coup attempt

3. demoralizes Russian troops and civvies

4. One of the evilest and, sadly, more capable ru military leaders is out of the picture

Every way you slice it, this is bad news for Russia.

You can always summarize Russian history in one sentence: "Then, it got worse." This is true to that.

pass the popcorn

[Braff Zacklin 13289]

As much as it pains me to say it, Prigozhin was absolutely a worse option (i.e., somehow even less stable/predictable) than Putin, so his untimely demise should ultimately be a good thing.

Even better if it touches off a little bit o' civil war.

Edited August 23, 2023 by Braff Zacklin

[JesusSweatDuck 17779]

[Pescado_Rojo 19235]

Everyone assumes Putin had the guy whacked, but what if air defense just mistook his plane for a Malaysian airliner? 

[Trey3216 15308]

35 minutes ago, G650 said:

Well at least my day is a little brighter now

so was his, if only for a flash  

[Schulz2.0 28626]

 

 

[Johnny Chimpo 478]

How are y’all not finding the news that Russian air defenses shot down the plane? I was on financial times and they reported that a couple of missiles were launched from Russian air defense towards the jet. I also saw the Twitter videos of it falling from the sky, it looked broken like it had been impacted by something.

[tokamak 6323]

35 minutes ago, The Dog said:

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Watch out Putin, these guys are pissed. They might actually get within 250 miles of the Kremlin before chickening out this time.

[Schulz2.0 28626]

 

 

 

[Brisketexan 103515]

4 minutes ago, Johnny Chimpo said:

How are y’all not finding the news that Russian air defenses shot down the plane? I was on financial times and they reported that a couple of missiles were launched from Russian air defense towards the jet. I also saw the Twitter videos of it falling from the sky, it looked broken like it had been impacted by something.

Watching it go down and freezing a frame or two, it was missing a wing.  Which checks out -- the embraer that he was on has underwing engines, so that's where a heat seeker likely would have done its damage.

[Schulz2.0 28626]

 

[Schulz2.0 28626]

 

[The Dog 43087]

 

[4th and 5 4903]

23 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Everyone assumes Putin had the guy whacked, but what if air defense just mistook his plane for a Malaysian airliner? 

 

I mean, with what we've seen so far, can we really rule out incompetence?

 

15 minutes ago, Johnny Chimpo said:

How are y’all not finding the news that Russian air defenses shot down the plane? I was on financial times and they reported that a couple of missiles were launched from Russian air defense towards the jet. I also saw the Twitter videos of it falling from the sky, it looked broken like it had been impacted by something.

in this video (the second tweet) you can see that it was shot down

 

[Shoxthemonkey 1972]

7 minutes ago, 4th and 5 said:

 

I mean, with what we've seen so far, can we really rule out incompetence?

 

in this video (the second tweet) you can see that it was shot down

 

Am I the only one that imagines that Pigmeat was screaming like a bitch all the way to the ground?

Edited August 23, 2023 by Shoxthemonkey

[Pig Bellmont 8637]

Any word whether his family was killed also? I’m guessing at a minimum his billions have already been recaptured 

[4th and 5 4903]

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also commented on the developing situation.

"The fact that Prigozhin made a direct challenge to Putin's authority, the fact that he questioned publicly the very premises that Putin has advanced for the aggression against Ukraine – that's playing out and will continue to play out," Blinken told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday when asked about the incident.

"We've seen the ongoing drama, too, of where is Prigozhin, what is the arrangement with Putin?" he added. "If I were Mr. Prigozhin, I would remain very concerned. NATO has an 'Open Door' policy; Russia has an open windows policy, and he needs to be very focused on that."

The "open windows policy" was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that numerous prominent Russian officials and businessmen who fell out of favor with Putin died by what local authorities described as falling out of windows or off of balconies.