Prigozhin Office Pool

If you had “plane shot down by missile” in your Yevgeniy Prigozhin office pool, congratulations. You probably won.

Probably won? What does that mean? Right now, it’s speculated that Prigozhin is dead because his name was on the manifesto of the plane that suddenly nosedived into Russian turf outside Moscow.

I was talking to my son about this last night before I went to the debate party here in Atlanta and after. He won’t accept that Prigozhin is dead until he hears something official but for me, anything “official” from Russia is about as trustworthy as anything from Donald Trump. The way I see it, if Russia is saying Prigozhin is dead, then he’s dead.

I don’t think Russian President Vladimir Putin would let the news be announced to the world that Prigozhin is dead unless they know he’s dead. If Prigozhin suddenly pops up alive, that’ll be devastating to Putin. He wants Russians to know what happens to his enemies. Also, Putin knows everything that goes on in Russia. If Prigozhin was supposed to be on the plane but stepped off or failed to show, Putin would know. The plane would not have had its “accident” if Prigozhin wasn’t on it.

Putin kills critics. He had a female punk band thrown into prison for saying bad things about him. He had Alexei Navalny imprisoned for the crime of surviving his assassination attempt and just this month, he was given an additional 19 years for “extremism.” So, what would you expect Putin would do to a guy who tried to overthrow him?

I think it should be noted in the west every time one of Putin’s critics is murdered for opposing him because the leading candidate for the Republican nomination is a man who aspires to be the kind of president that Putin is. Donald Trump is probably on his way to the Fulton County Jail right now wishing he could do to his enemies what Putin does to his.

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