Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is a marked man and “I wouldn’t insure his life” after the mercenary fighter aborted his rebellion, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sai…
“I wouldn’t insure his life…Prigozhin clearly took a chance. If you’re going to take on the king, don’t do it with a Nerf bat. He did. It failed,” Pompeo said on WABC 770 AM radio’s ““And he is not likely to find grace from Vladimir Putin again. Whether that ends up with him drinking some bad tea, or just permanently in exile, it’s hard to know.”
Ukraine’s spy agency claims the Russian Federal Security Service has been tasked with assassinating Yevgeny Prigozhin.NurPhoto via Getty Images He said he expects Putin to crack down on the Wagner Group mercenaries the way Chinese President Xi Jinping reined in Chinese businesses that got too far off the Communist Party reservation.
“Putin will see this as something that’s just a bridge too far. Much like Xi Jinping went after the leaders of commercial enterprises that had gotten out too far, and…threatened his power…Putin began to see Prigozhin was threatening his [power]. He will clamp down on all of this. No one individual will be given the scope and the power that the leader of the Wagner group Prigozhin had been given. Putin is simply not going to permit that. There’s too much risk to his continued tenure.
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