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Yevgeny Prigozhin’s reported death, allegedly at the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is unsurprising, considering the extensive list of assassinations attributed to the former KGB head. Critics of the Russian president have reportedly been victims of poisoning, falls from balconies and windows, or have experienced mysterious “serious illnesses.”
Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich asserts that Putin is a ruthless individual who must be stopped in the ongoing war in Ukraine.
In the recent Republican presidential debate, the former Ambassador of the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said that the ambassador from Russia died while she was serving there. And she was pretty convinced that Putin had him killed. This would not be at all unlike Putin, who was, after all, a KGB officer trained to kill people, to torture people, to do whatever the Soviet state needed. But it’s almost like a spy novel. I mean, can you imagine if, in fact, Progozhin is still alive, if in fact, he figured it out and got away?
But it should also be a reminder, whatever happened to him in reality, it was certainly Putin’s intention to kill him. And by the way, Putin didn’t mind killing 10 other people on the airplane. So I think everybody who thinks it’s going to be easy to solve the Ukraine problem, it’s going to be easy to get Putin to negotiate, just remember: this man is a ruthless killer. And he’s a man trained to do that. And he has done it his whole life. And he has no doubts about staying tough, and that if you’re tough enough, long enough, you win.
That’s why making sure Russia does not win in Ukraine is very, very important to the entire civilized world.
