I’ll bet way back when he was spending a lot of his time in jail, Yevgeny Prigozhin was wondering, like all of us would, where his life was going to end up.
Checking in with Yevgeny, we see that he is head of the Wagner Group, that sinister-sounding band of mercenaries. It also appears that Prigozhin has put himself in a position where he may be rightly considered a political rival to Vladimir Putin.
Dangerous business that.
I don’t like the look of him. I tell you, I don’t like the look of him at all. He reminds me of those horror movies I used to watch on television during summer holidays. Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff. Those guys. He looks like a villain from Spiderman.
He somehow went from criminal to being “Putin’s Chef,” and from the looks of things, the catering business has done great things for Yevgeny. He somehow became fabulously rich and found himself in a position to fund his own private army (Wagner) that he contracts out to the government, or if you will, Putin. Wagner would go to the dirty areas, and often do brutal things. They haven’t changed much.
Prigozhin now openly challenges the competence of regular Russian soldiers and their leadership, and engages in public relations wars with everyone in high places, except for Putin. And vice-versa it seems.
If something were to ever happen to Putin, I wouldn’t be rushing out to buy the party hats and noise-makers. Because what comes after him may be worse still.
I don’t like the look of that Yevgeny Prigozhin one bit. Not one bit.
NEWSMAGRENFREW 