Wagner mercenaries were on Thursday reported to be trying to head back into Russia after threatening retaliation over the suspected killing of their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash on the orders of Vladimir Putin. “The convoys are likely heading towards the border with Russia,” the centre said. “There’s a lot talk right now about what the Wagner Group will do,” he said.
  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1332·
    1 year ago

    For everyone just tuning in: This show is notorious for having bad season finales.

          • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Behind the Bastards has an episode about Jim Caviezel, and in it they discussed several anonymous and one non anonymous retelling of working with the man. If the allegations are to be believed, he kept being worse and worse not understanding his characters motivations, and they had to adjust some stuff to stop him ruining the show. They mention him doing stuff like actually harming other actors/stunt doubles if he was doing action scenes, a desire to just kill and shoot up enemies, and being really bad later on about following the script.

            • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              I loved that show, had no idea of anything about the actor behind John Reese. Just read some articles and he sounds like a right nutter.

          • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Having not finished any of these shows I’m unsure of if the format is telling me they have good endings or not. I’m guessing not but I heard Fringe and POI are great.

  • fluke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    1 year ago

    Honest at this point I wouldn’t even blink if Prigozhin popped up in the future to tell us they faked their deaths.

    To be clear, I believe that he’s dead (and that it was probably an assassination by Putin), but so many other outrageous things have happened already little surprises me.

    • WhipTheLlama@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      That’s the first thing I thought when I heard about his death. He should have known that Putin would likely want him dead, so pretending to board a plane that gets shot down is a pretty good way to fake your death. Does he use his fake death to plot revenge or to escape, never to be heard from again?

    • Xero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      1 year ago

      I’d hoped he piloted a Kamikaze plane into Putin’s card fortress so both of them could go to hell to meet Hitler whom they admired so much

    • letsgocrazy@lemm.eeEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      At this point it’s such a clown show that I wouldn’t be surprised by much.

  • letsgocrazy@lemm.eeEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    My Russian friend pointed out to me that Prigozhin was actually on his way to see Putin when he got shot down.

      • nyoooom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        1 year ago

        Yeah that part makes no sense, how dumb do you have to be to put the two main leaders in the same fucking plane flying near the capital

          • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
            5·
            1 year ago

            Recent? I was watching a video about the USSR losing a whole bunch of their top generals because the idiots went on the same plane to some meeting. They used this little trip for some personal shopping. They bought a lot much stuff and it was improperly secured in the aircraft so it shifted during takeoff dooming them all.

        • TheWoozy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Who knows what Putin told them to get them to visit him? “All is forgiven & I want you to run the ministry of defense”.

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    343·
    1 year ago

    Here we go again.

    It will end not differently than last time.

    When they had their leader, they might have had a chance to taking down Putin. Maybe. Slim chance, but a chance. Now they are fucked.

    Still would be nice to put a hurt on the Russian military.

  • notatoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    1 year ago

    As long as they’re not killing Ukrainians, then I guess yeah, go do whatever…

  • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    121·
    1 year ago

    Dumb asses, quiet sabotage would get you get you so much further, especially if you can figure out how to signal out and communicate with each other. Hey maybe I’m underestimating them and this is a feint to distract from something but big doubt.

    • dtrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      Agigatedpotato has toppled countless government. He needs to be heard

      • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Just thinking like Im a soldier who wants to avenge my commander who I’m presuming was killed for his very public soft coup attempt, and I just think I would probably rather avoid planning my own very public soft coup.

  • randomperson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    154·
    1 year ago

    The less wagnerites operating on Ukrainian soil the better. The less wagnerites helping illegal migrants to cross Polish-Belarusian border the better. The less wagnerites the better.

    • TimeNaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      209·
      1 year ago

      Fuck wagner but also fuck the polish border guards for murdering migrants.

      I dont give a fuck if they’re considered “legal” or not - they deserve to be treated like refugees not like a political pawn for both sides.

      • randomperson@lemmy.worldEnglish
        110·
        1 year ago

        I don’t give a fuck about your considerations either. Our border our rules. Also lol’d at “killing”. If anyone died there it was because of their own stupidity of trying to cross it from Belarus which isn’t a war torn country but they didn’t want safety but rather monies from western Europe.

  • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.mlEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    Not going to happen. They’ve lost their heavy weaponry, their leadership and they’ve been split across Belarus and the regular Russian army.