Matt BlazeAdding "private jet pilot for out-of-favor members of Putin's inner circle" to my "jobs I do not want" list.
Jesper Kamstrup Linnet@mattblaze Along with “standing guard below windows of out-of-favor members”
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸@mattblaze I was just thinking... the 9 other people on board were essentially deemed 'expendable'. Ouch.
wonk@chris @mattblaze Demetri Utkin, founder of the Wagner Group and noted Nazi, was also on the manifest and likely a target. By traveling together in Moscow they really gave Putin a two-for-one deal.
@wonk @mattblaze one less Nazi in the world is never a bad thing. Now if we could get rid of the Nazi in the Kremlin…. I sense eventually he'll find his way to the end of a gun, or open window, or doomed plane.
Ken Buchanan@mattblaze There is a relevant scene in the film Clerks, in which they discuss the fate of the contractors who were working on construction of the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi.
Michael Gemar@mattblaze @icymi_law If *I* failed to pull off a coup in a country, I wouldn’t stick around *in that same country*.
Carrie@michaelgemar It was a bold move.
The Febrile Muse@mattblaze Sounds like a good plan.
Steve Bellovin@mattblaze NPR had Nina L. Khrushcheva — the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev — on All Things Considered just now. She noted that Prigozhin has many doubles and may not actually have been on the plane… So, another job to avoid: body double for one of Putin's enemies.
ByronCinNZ@mattblaze I expected another "fell out of a window" story. (Seems to happen a lot in Russia to people on the wrong side of Putin,) But guess there was a desire for something more dramatic in this case
Ted Faber@mattblaze
Have you heard the roofers-on-the-Death-Star exchange from Clerks?
Have you heard the roofers-on-the-Death-Star exchange from Clerks?
Kofi Loves Efia 
@mattblaze tovarich, pilot job very safe. Plane fell out of hotel window. Should not have drunk so much vodka
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