I have the same intuition but than hearing how spectacularly clues he is when taking about Poland gives me a pause.

Western media doesn't even care about the Russian political mind. But now we know that Vivek Ramaswamy is a Putin ally. Vivek thinks that old military gear should be sent to the Mexican border, not Ukraine. A loud-mouthed idiot, Balmyswamy should stick to giving presentations to gullible investors.

You're saying that as if western media actually wants to cover the intricacies of bloodthirsty non-western politics. I am going to have to remind you, as a western viewer of western media, I would be happy if western media would one day, just once, maybe in February, somewhere mid month, maybe between the second and third weeks for no particular self indulgent reason at all declare: "nothing is going wrong elsewhere in the world, everything is nice and there is nothing weird to worry about, the weather is going to be great today and all of your friends have brought you sausages and cheese of various vintages" "India has made friends with Pakistan and they are both currently baking a cake together, Xi Jinping has acknowledged that China is a pluricentric country and has made a Hong Kong cinema film in which he performed all of his own stunts, the war on drugs has been cancelled and the capital of the United States is now Tenochtitlan, Dogs have decided to make peace with Cats and both species are now playing fetch with each other, Shiites and Sunnis have both simultaneously realised that deep down, everyone is a Jew, and Hitler has been reanimated and been forced to confess that actually, the Nazis and the Communists are both as deludedly ideologically motivated as each other and maybe no one ever really gave a fuck what _either_ of them thought to begin with, because neither of them were all too polite about explaining it, and they are both making an apology video together to let the world know how sorry they are for what they did." And now let's turn over to April Ryan with the weather report!

Yes, and he looks like Mischa Auer while doing so! I am a fan!

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Slip of tongue realised it as soon as I watched!

Also, only after he announced to publish evidence on Putins pedophilia.

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​@@VladVexlerThat's the nice thing when you have a community: Someone will set things right.

@@juliarichter6987 And we trust each other. That's the best.

He's not dead... It was most likely his double...

Me too, and on the 2 month annivesary, with many important people on the plane ,, He was bluffed by putler. He was coaxed to moskow, by a master manipulator.

​@@robertlopez9347oh he's dead. And if he's not , he wants to be😂

​@@robertlopez9347Yes, it wasn't prigozhins plane it was his planes double. This didn't happen in Russia, it happened in Russias double. I AM NOT ME, I AM MY DOUBLE!

Dude should have run off to West immediately

Possibly waited for a more ideal opportunity and making 99% sure he could see it through. Surprise element without all his bases covered might've been his only option, being against the most insidious spying organisation ever devised in human history with Putin likely able to know exactly when and what Prigorsion had for breakfast on any day of his choice.

He was relying on his history with Putin to counter the threat of retribution. He was extremely wrong

Prygozhin stopped because Surovikin, who was then in custody, said one word ' STOP '

It wasn't intended to be a coup - Prigozhin's power struggle was with Shoigu, not Putin. What Prigozhin failed to see, but is obvious in hindsight, was that Shoigu's orders came from Putin. It's also very notable that Putin took a very long time to first react to the uprising, as if he was deliberating on how best to play it. I read this delay that Putin considered Prigozhin a very valuable asset that he didn't really want to loose, but he also didn't want to risk Prigozhin successfully seizing control of the Army, in case he then turned against Putin. There is very much more to this than meets the eye, but whichever way you slice it, Putin lost. He has even expressed some regret and I don't think this is entirely phony.

He probably overestimated the courage, power, and backup of the potent ones (such as Surovikin) supporting him. Once he moved and the reality kicked in, it was too late. It's basically no different than in daily life, school, or work. People tend to blabber a lot behind the scenes, then when it's time to act, they poop their pants and disappear, and the few brave ones are left alone and are screwed. What I don't understand is the whole aftermath story. He must have known better. Probably I gave him too much credit.

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The theatricality and spectacle of blowing Prigozhin and his lieutenants out of the sky says a lot about the depth of Putin’s insecurity. Rich but insecure men buy exotic sports cars, yachts, luxuries mansions for their mistresses. Putin has disobedient subordinates ostentatiously annihilated. What would we think if Trump used a golden toilet to publicly bludgeon Mark Meadows to death?

Or not

he's 70 years old. 71 exactly two weeks from today. he will die in office. talking like a grandstanding weirdo accomplishes nothing.

I have. It makes it kind of difficult to know where he actually is.

And that no one is within 10 meters of him at a minimum? 🤣

Israelistan the most evil country in human history lecturing on right and wrong. You're the perfect example of a brainwashed AmeriGoyim

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Most people in Europe don't thi nk Ukraine is a good cause,its always been very corrupt.

🥴 you definitely were not on the right side of this war. This guy isn't telling fact's. This is propaganda site. No one even knows at this time who killed Wagner leader. There's several people who wanted him dead. Go to other sites and get more educated. I feel sorry for you fighting Obama Biden proxy war. 🙄 I'd feel super stupid for fighting for the wrong side.

Oh yeah ?! I'm a marine vet over here as well fighting. My grandmother is from Odessa. I've been here since the first week. What region are you in? As an American military vet I know you're intelligent enough to understand by looking at my call sign what I'm helping with. God Bless America 🇺🇸 and watch over you brother. Slava Ukraini to our new brothers and sisters in arms. Let's get their land back from this monster. Semper Fi !!

I hope to get a netflix series on him

He was a child writer at some time, don’t you forget

@@theb1z0n Shoot, I had forgotten! I think the idea of it was too disturbing to remember.

I’m surprised I haven’t seen any videos of the jet falling out of the air set to Flight of the Valkyries.

Just because a group of criminals and murderers called themselves ''Wagner'' you shouldn't insult Richard Wagner the composer. It is a bit sickening, gives them too much honor and credit.

Rhyme is reason for hacks, not scholars. It's just a cute little quip. It condenses the gestalt of a deeply idiotic episode into "A is A," which is all it ever stood a chance of being because all the players involved were ancephalic opportunists who lacked even the animal cunning to understand that they were playing a game where the winner walks out with a knife covered in blood, only to die three weeks later in a counter-coup, and nobody else walks out at all. If throwaway twitticisms like this sway you to any serious degree then you ought not to be forming opinions on complex topics.

Hurling hot takes out the door within a day of the precipitating incident is, inherently and incontestably, an act of punditry & media populism in the hopes of catching views from current affairs viewers. This is a conscious decision to prioritize the news cycle over principled analysis. Everyone who participated in the game of takes on August 23-24 is reset to british tabloid tier credence forever. Literally all it takes to be highly confiden[t] in the ground truth of what you're about to present to a large audience of nonspecialist viewers is to give it a couple friggin days of work.

@jeremycahill4662 yeah, I mean, I wasn't running for office on that platform or anything, I just thought it was clever. Also, I think you meant "anencephalic."

Thank you Jake!

Love y'all both. Slava Ukraine!

What is this, a crossover episode?! Joking aside, always lovely to see other Ukraine coverage creators show up.

Happy to see you both watching each other’s work and hope for a collaboration episode in future!

....and on Ukraine Flag Day

@@paulhargreaves1497 if it was so easy for the ukrainian army to get rid of Prigozhin, it would have already happened long ago, when he was a threat. Listen to the clumsy comments of Putler and Kadyrov and you will understand that they evidently do not show any regret of what happened and admit that they did foresee this coming.

Well, it is a significant date for Ukraine....their national day.

As Bagration (1944) was three years to the day to Barbarossa (1941).

In general that’s true

_Entry of the Gods into Valhalla_ would have been better kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bamYZZVo1byRcWQ.html

Lol! Just caught the "Ride of the Valkyries" in the background!

Who cares

This has been happening since the war started in 2014 - Nemstov was gunned down in sight of the Kremlin in 2015.

Slick stuff indeed. VV and his crystal ball.

Plan well your march on the Gremlin, No cold feet half way Your next meal a bitter resentin' Your plane falls in broad day Dugin's 'spiritual leader' on the go Now a wisp of vapor outside Moscow. 🇺🇦

Vlad did say they waited until he was weakened

I think putin's people put out feelers among the wagner command to find people to take over wagner, specifically to continue its african operations, before taking out prigozhin and utkin.

@@Vgallo Yes, I know. I would agree, I think it's easily the most logical options Vlad mentioned. Although what he said about Putin trying to bring his enemy closer before getting rid of him makes sense also.

I would also argue that they needed to Utkin and the other bugger off the board at the same time. If the Wagners’ second and third in command were still in play, they might have been able to organize some kind of retaliation. With all three dead, the remaining Wagnerites are likely to spend the next 3-6 months figuring out who’s in charge, bleeding men and arms the whole while.

also, didnt similar timing speculation happened with Nordstream... that remote detonation was used to not let public and media connect dots as easily, cause ambiguity who did it... this works same among lot of other things (daily reorganization)

Thank you!! 🌻

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Why do I have the feeling that Vlad had this mostly produced already since he certainly predicted it Either way, a top notch effort

Very grateful!

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It's literally just cookie-cutter, boilerplate clickbait. When you see a red arrow in a thumbnail flanked by a title like "the REAL reason..." you're dealing with someone who read a "how to lure idiots to your channel" article, and thinks absolutely nothing more of his audience.

No rest for the wicked.

Sleeping on planes is common.

​@@AstroGremlinAmericandon't think they were trying to say it isn't.

"All who take the sword, die by the sword." (Jesus, Mat 26:52)

If he was "for a brief moment...against the monster in the Kremlin," it was because the monster wasn't being monstrous enough.Let's not get sentimental here (not saying you are: Internet comments are tough to interpret).

Large portion of the world still lives in the stone age 🕋

Stalin was a Star Wars scale science fiction mass murderer. A middle ages scale one as Shakespeare loved to depict is a lesser evil : they generally keep content with a few victims at a time. Medieval wars were generally small-scale and highly ritualized.

Fool wargner boss went to speak with putin directly so there's no way he could have known putin would stab him in the back like that after giving him something to drink before he left

He traveled on a plane to Belarus immediately after the March. Thats pretty dumb.

Prigozhin should have rented one of those 1950s era armored train cars from North Korea.

You can be powerful, you can be evil...but that doesn't necessarily make you smart.

Prigozhin seemed to be of the view that if there was no way to avoid assassination, he'd live his life as before without taking precautions. Or at least that's the best explanation I can think of for why he'd continue to fly around on jets after being ordered to stay in Belarus. Or maybe he actually thought that he was too powerful and/or useful to Putin to be summarily murdered. In any case, getting to do what he wanted for two months probably gave him the impression that he wasn't going to be punished for the mutiny. I wouldn't be surprised if Putin deliberately drew it out just to give Prigozhin hope before dropping the boom.

And the people should wonder how wise it is to continue to tolerate a regime that will knowingly and callously and directly murder innocent civilians purely as a part of a pointless, needless game. Kristina Raspopova deserved better. Her family deserve better.

Exactly! Utkin, a name most people have only heard recently, is callsign "Wagner." Even if Prego had a deal, Utkin was toast. It was only a matter of time.

I doubt the conclusion that it shall remove all thoughts of mutiny. I believe that it taught a lesson to pull through when starting a mutiny and not cave in when Putin is offering an agreement. It showed that Putin cannot be trusted at all, thus nobody will try to negotiate with him anymore. Putin and his regime are not in a better situation than before that killing; it showed weakness, not strength.

Yep, my thoughts exactly! Like Sean Connery in that gangster film, "They send one of ours to the hospital, we send one of theirs to the morgue". That symbolism is really key to this situation. Putin is a gangster and he's displaying that mentality by doing this. I think it's a message for ALL private armies in Russia, not just the MoD. Gazprom and other private militaries along with their oligarchs are now on notice. Although I still think Prigozhin was dead before he got on the plane. No chances with that one. Putin had 2 months to torture him and I'm sure he did. That's how gangsters behave and I watch far too much "true crime" on TV. Hey, at least "Sons of Anarchy" had a good soundtrack!

excellent comparison, had forgotten many details of events from June.

Thanks for that detail - I just heard the Valkyries and went looking for a comment with more context. Another great Ride of the Vlad-kyries

Swirling evil! Also used for Darth Vader’s scenes in Star Wars. Writer, director and producer, we need more people like Vlad Vexler - even Vlad’s name is cool!

Oh wow Much felt compassion to you Hawaii 😢 for your tragic losses of lives 😥

Last time I checked, Russia controls 20% of Ukrainian territory and Ukraine is always begging for weapons like a homeless man begging for a dollar

Thank you so much! And thank you for being here!!

its common sense

What was his naivety? If Putin wanted him dead, do you think not taking a plane would make a difference?

Considering how many planes Wagner shot down, yes. I guess he kind of chose how to die.

One would think that after knowing him for over 20 years, Prigozhin would have known that Putin isn't the kind of guy who will settle for a draw.

Hi, Anders! Plus a live session at midnight for his community. So we all could sleep sound and well.

Hello friend! I really pushed it!! Really enjoyed your talk with Perun!

Putin went to Saint Petersburg straightaway. But he might've occupied the Kremlin, and that's where things might've gotten interesting...

I was indifferent. Prigozhin would have been Putin 2.0 No peace, no democracy, no liberties. Just same thug life different thug.

If you're going to take a shot at the mob boss, you'd better not miss. It's going to be the only shot you get.

As to taking on Putin, OK. But Shoigu, for whose sake are you hoping? The largest advantage of Shoigu to everyone including Ukraine and the world at large is that he's absolutely incompetent and very corrupt.

He started the convoy because he had already lost. Official decisions had been made to dismantle Wagner and integrate it into the DoD. People tend to miss that.

1991 GKChP and yeltsin RSFSR counter/auto-coup. 1993 yeltsin auto-coup. three events that happened in near-contemporary russian history of far more direct relevance than a ridiculous corporal and poison dwarf conspiring to dispense with the SA and röhm.

yeah that's a rather far-fetched nazi comparison. the situation with the night of the long knives was that hitler, soon after becoming dictator of germany, consolidated his power by getting rid of other leading nazis who could limit his authority through their official status in the party. since it was founded by freikorps members, the nazi party had a paramilitary wing from the beginning, which became the SA, and that's the force röhm commanded when he was killed. that was the entire muscle of the nazi party, whereas wagner is a small quasi-military force created by putin less than 10 years ago. hitler used the party's power to bring the state fully under control, then used the state's power to bring the party fully under control, and then he for the most part replaced the party-loyal SA with a new explicitly hitler-loyal SS, which he then took care to keep strong enough to subdue or deter potential partial coups and revolts committed by the national military.

@@Ass_of_Amalek these objections (mine included) are, of course, a trap / unfair in their own right: comparing russia with any society that advanced under its own power beyond the neolithic is fundamentally a category error. you could draw comparisons with african postcolonial struggles to manage peaceful transitions of power between executives, but this would falsely imply that russian society, stripped of soviet vassals/satellites, is third world. left to their own devices, they're closer to the sentinelese, but with none of the geographic-determinism excuses for lack of development. the only humane solution to russian culture is systematic, full-scale resettlement of the entire ethnically russian population around the globe, efffectively cleansing humanity of russkiy mir for at least a few generations while giving 1/8th the usable landmass of the planet a fighting chance, for the first time in forever, to develop like literally anywhere else in the world.

​@@Ass_of_AmalekWagner is more SS than SA. SS also started as paramilitary and ended with elite tank brigades staffed with convicts

@@Ass_of_Amalek It's not a NSDAP comparison, talk a stroll down logic lane, Oxford. It is about the situation of a dictator consolidating power, the removal of a challenger. That Röhm was in the NSDAP is simply the background.

My initial thought too. Also Putin (or "Putin") was photographed with orchestra behind him on that day. As he was celebrating Kursk battle anniversary.

Mafia run nation? You talking of russia or ukraine? lol

​@@TheMarineGamerIGGHQhahahah how funny hahahah look at this smart joke everybody!! Look!

@@juancsmix Just in case he deletes it, he said "Mafia run nation? You talking of russia or ukraine? lol". What a fool 😂

@@jahazbrooga309 calm your titties, ladies, and get off your high horse. By any definition until 2014 ukraine was by all means a "mafia run nation". Only 20 out of the 195 countries are considered full democracies, so the definition of a mafia-run nation can be applied to the rest of the world as well

@@jahazbrooga309 for what reason would I delete it? It's a fact. Most you couldn't even point to Ukraine on a map before all of this started. What would you know of it? Europe's capital of corruption all of the sudden is a great, free democratic nation just because Russia decided to take matters into its own hands... Pathetic. You're all so easily manipulated it's sad

I did Nazi this coming

Easy. Russian style as usual. They showed him a photo of his family and told him, is it the revolt or your family? And he chose for his family to live and revolt to finish. I still believe he was killed a little time after the revolt.

Most likely it was due to reason most coups fail: some of the key plotters get cold feet.

Because Puntin fled. If you can't decapitate the old leadership in a swift move they can rally the loyalists and it leads to a civil war.

@@cyruslupercal9493 Historically though, fled leaders stay fled. Which is why Zelenski stayed. Once he left, his power was gone. I understand your point and it's been made well by other, eg Perun, but apart from the Khallesi, who had major plot armour, which exiled leader ever regained power ?

Many criminals evade justice throughout life. That Prigozin was arrested aged 20 and jailed for 12 years suggests his arrogance came before his criminal intelligence. He wasn't born into a criminal family.

Because psychopaths have no fear.

​@@skdfdjkdfjkd Psycopaths "feel no fear", but they aren't stupid either.

No, he was not stupid - he and his people must have received and believed assurances that he was safe from harm.

@@gregwilliams2746 that's pretty stupid, to believe in it. I knew the dice was cast..

That black box will disappear into eternity.

Think about the need for all that theatricality. What is Putin’s true position if he needed to stage a Hollywood spectacle when a simple assassination would have sufficed?

I feel sorry for the stewardess. The pilot was a Wagnerian.

Wasn't no stewardess. And they're called "flight attendants" since about 20 years ago.

@@AstroGremlinAmerican I think that’s the official job description? Ok just trying to be respectful and according to news outlets there was one.

​@@AstroGremlinAmericanNo need to be an ass. You have a problem you need to work out. Please do it elsewhere.

@BlogsNewsReviews Nevertheless an innocent victim of pure evil.

😂...well done!

Prigozhin never wanted to kill putin

@@vedser Since he had plenty of opportunity as Putin's personal chef.

“I knew Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early ’90s. He was a man of complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in his life, but he achieved the right results” I don't know, when someone is telling something like that after the death of a person, he is basically admitting that he saw that coming and justifying the death. Would a reasonable person mourn the death of someone by saying "he made serious mistakes?". That seems the commentary of a psychopath, as Putin is. Unluckily the dwarf is getting old; his brain starts to lag. Kadyrov also said something on the same line: "I asked him to leave personal ambitions for the sake of matters of paramount national importance. Everything else could be decided later. But he was like that, with his iron character and desire to achieve his goal right there and then,"

This was a good video, Vlad! Thanks.

Do you think this is the beginning of the end, besides the attempted Coup?

Love your content, not sure how I feel about new camera work. Bit of distracting

A couple of slips in this video - I pushed a bit too much to get it out today. Love to all!

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You misunderstand a few things. 1) Prigo not once publicly criticized Putin. 2) Prigo did not take a shot at Putin. He took a shot at Shoigu and the MoD. 3) Prigo was convinced his mutany against the MoD was a minor issue compared to what he could do to benefit Russia and Putin's war efforts. He thought he was safe. Incorrectly, but not unreasonably.

Agreed!

Agreed. The mutiny was a joy ride, a suicide run. Some commenters are asking how could he be so stupid as to board a plane. That’s like saying how could he be so stupid as to go on living once he was marked for death. It was towards the end of Bakhmut that he really started getting squirrelly. I think he realized he was getting screwed by Shoigu the pimp. But it was on the road to Moscow he fully realized it was Putin screwing him all along. By then it was too late to lay down and spread his legs.

@@MarcosElMalo2 That all seems to make sense to me. He quite noticeably lost his head at Bakhmut and that's about when I started to see he was in trouble and when he kept escalating is when I started predicting he was headed to his grave. Then came the mutiny to complete the act, theatrically speaking/a refrence.

I watch DW, Sky, US news... his astute and informed analysis is up there with Timothy Snyder and Julia Ioffe.

law of averages

Why do stupid people ask stupid quastions?

he was taken too soon 😭

Oh the horror of it all

Thank you!

Nah man I think prigozhin knew he was f***ed He was just an i don't give a f*** kinda guy

He thought he would but you can’t show weakness at the level he was at he had to keep up the show of relevance.

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Why are you discrediting the glorious russian army? It is not a 10 day special military operation. It is a 3 day special military operation. All the grain we destroyed was nazi grain that had little swastikas in each seed. Coincidence? *Disclaimer: I tried to sound as absurd as I can, but regardless how hard I try someone is still gonna think I'm a ruski troll, and I don't blame ya considering how god damn stupid they are. Slava Ukraini.