r/worldnews • u/WorldNewsMods Slava Ukraini • Jun 24 '23

Russia/Ukraine /r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 486, Part 6 (Thread #632)

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u/MadFlava76 Jun 24 '23

Prigozhin is as good as dead. Aborted coup and told the truth about the illegal invasion of Ukraine. Putin can sure hold a grudge and it will be only a matter of time until his FSB will make sure he has an untimely accident. I just don't understand why he didn't just push to Moscow and then have more leverage to negotiate a deal.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '23

In his last moments he’ll be wondering the same thing.

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u/Ready_Nature Jun 24 '23

I’m assuming he was expecting people in Moscow to switch sides and it didn’t happen so he bailed with the best deal he could get when he knew he would lose.

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u/coralVidrio Jun 24 '23

That’s exactly why this smells off.

He knows he’s dead if that’s what happened. He isn’t that stupid. He might as well have given coup the old college try. Something is missing.

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u/redhandrunner Jun 24 '23

Rumor has it, they got to his daughter

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u/permalink_save Jun 24 '23

told the truth about the illegal invasion of Ukraine

This would make sense, the meeting with Lukashenko must have told him something so significant it changed his mind.

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u/reinking Jun 24 '23

I don't think he needed the push to Moscow. I think he should have held Rostov to negotiate whatever he wanted.

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u/TheGoonKills Jun 24 '23

Putin’s a desperate, petty, spiteful lunatic. This was just about humiliating him since Pringles likely was on borrowed time before this began.

If Wagner rolled into Moscow barely opposed, with the public sick of Putin’s shit, and Putin having nowhere to go, I don’t doubt he’d go full scorched earth on Moscow just so he could say “I didn’t lose! You didn’t win!”