Where is Prigozhin? (Poll)

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42. The fact that "Nothing coming out of Russia can be fully believed"...

...doesn't elevate the probability of needlessly elaborate and conspiratorial interpretations of events.

If I've learned anything from the past several awful years of the rise of Trump and Trumpism, it's that a propagandist sadly doesn't have to work so hard at creating disinfo as staging imaginary revolts that are actually coordinated behind the scenes.

The simple bullshit of the kind that Tucker Carlson did on Fox, before getting canned, is more than sufficient. As dim as my view of human intelligence has been all along, I hadn't, until 2016, lowered it enough to grasp how many people are susceptible to what seems to me to be transparent bullshit.

The Prigozhin attack didn't help Putin at all. It made him look weak. When disinfo is easy, why bother with whatever complex 10-dimensional chess it would take to figure out how a staged attack that makes Putin look bad somehow, someway plays to Putin's advantage? Not totally impossible, I suppose, but not anywhere near probable enough to eagerly jump to "Laughing on phone with Putin about another successful disinfo stunt" as anything close to a viable or realistic top choice explanation for what's going on.