Showing the elite that if you cross this guy, your time is probably not going. your number will be up pretty soon. the way putin did was dramatic. what s more, we need to remember remember that russian elites have to get along on these privatejets. putin is willing to show he is willing to attack one of these. what is more, waiting a couple of months before taking this action enable him to do some things we didn t expect. he seemed to have a lull yevgeny prigozhin interface false sense of security. we have reports that he met him for a few hours shortly after the mutiny. looks yevgeny prigozhin actually took the bait. this will allow putin to monitor the conversations and see if there weren t other russian elites a little too close to yevgeny prigozhin for putin s confident he could move against them. all in all, this was a very old fashioned godfather mafia style killing. he made it very clear that even if the godfather looks like he might forgive you, at any time,