The Fatal Flaw that Doomed the Wagner Group - William Spaniel

[Warpy]

1. He missed the obvious point about why they were all on one plane

The second plane was stuck circling Moscow, denied permission to land until the jet carrying all of them had taken off.

Likely some time constraint around the St. Petersburg trip been imposed and they knew they were in danger on the ground in Moscow and wanted to leave ASAP. What we don't know is how long they waited for that second plane, one that would never have been permitted to land and pick up one or the other of the top two execs.

They obviously had no idea Putin would shoot their plane down. However, Putin is a superstitious bastard as well as a symbolic thinker. He's always been obsessed with the number 2 and it was two months to the day since the near coup. During that attempt, 3 helicopters and one aircraft were shot down by Wagner, so of course shooting them down was perfect revenge.