• BerryB1ue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The guy wasn’t stupid. He knew going against Putin meant death if he failed. At some point during his attempted coup, he realised it wasn’t going to work and was faced with a choice: die now, or “back down” to scheme his way out of an almost certain death later. Turns out he couldn’t. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠༼⁠ ⁠•́⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠•̀⁠ ⁠༽⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Oh well, nothing of value was lost.

    • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I have nothing to add to your comment other than the fact that your text person clearly has a large nose and I think that’s a stylistic choice and I appreciate that as someone who also has a large nose.

      Oh, and fuck Putin.

    • Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I’m not sure he couldn’t have done it if he’d kept driving into Moscow. The defenses of the city were just in shambles. Almost as bad as Denmark in 1940.

      However, having tucked tail he should have known better than to come back.

      Now there are rumors that Wagner would stage a second coup attempt if the deaths were confirmed (which they are now).

      That would be a complete suicide mission now. 2500%.

      Still, interesting times.

      • Rose@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, there’s pretty much no chance with the leaders dead, their camp far from Moscow, no surprise factor, and the potential allies like Surovikin pushed from power. It seems like Putin has completely outplayed them.

    • Icaria@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      At some point during his attempted coup, he realised it wasn’t going to work

      When was that, exactly? Putin fled, reserve forces were standing by and not fighting Wagner, and he was a day out from an undefended Moscow. Worst case scenario was a protracted civil war, but he still would’ve lived longer than this.

      Honestly, none of this makes sense. The fact that he aborted in the first place makes the idea that he was conspiring with Putin the whole time to flush out disloyal elements within the Russian armed forces seem credible… but then why kill him after? I’m not ruling out the possibility that either this was a genuine accident, or it was another false flag and he and his second in command just faked their own deaths.

    • KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Couldn’t he go hide in like Central America or something? Though I suppose Russian intelligence would still find him and get to him.

      Maybe he could hide on the South Pole of the moon.

      • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        reportedly he was going back from some african country that day. he also could stay in belarus, but he chose to go back to moscow