Lorry,
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I keep hearing #journalists and pundits talking about the #Putin / #Prigozhin #coup and saying things like "Who could have seen this coming?"

May I suggest "Anyone over 50 who has spent any time following #Russian #politics at all" could safely have gambled the family farm on this coming?

My #Russia Coup folder has three subfolders, and that's just 1991, 1993 and 2023. And I still think there should be one for 1999.

Hire older journalists, you silly newspapers and TV shows.

#History #News

xs4me2,
@xs4me2@mastodon.social avatar

@Lorry

Nowadays, the news and knowledge horizon is less than one week… it seems…

nattiegoogie,

@Lorry

Yep. I've been calling this for almost a year.

Prigozhin has been insulting and criticizing Putin and the Russian military leadership, calling them bitches and cowards to the world for months now. This is now a surprise?

rysiek,
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

@Lorry also, anyone any age who has some basic knowledge of history and has been following the situation at least somewhat closely over the last 1.5y.

jens,
@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de avatar

@Lorry you don't even have to be over 50 or a journalist.

erwhatdidyousay,

@Lorry any one who read Machiavelli’s Prince could see it coming

akamran,

@erwhatdidyousay @Lorry true, but journalists all go to journalism school these days - no more liberal arts 😞

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