he was just in mali in africa two days ago apparently there to try and regain some of the prestige and credibility that wagner had lost as a result of their aborted coup in june. and so the idea his plane was shot out of the sky by russian air defense systems suggests that this has the paw prints of vladimir putin written all over them. this guy could have been taken out at any point outside of russian federation territory. stead, he was taken out inside russian federation territory about 180 miles north west of moscow. and this is something, by the way, everybody has been predicting. i mean you don t stage an up rising against the czar of russia without facing severe consequences. so it was either going to be prigozhin would foment another coup or he would be the subject of an assassination attempt, and in this case it seems this