Was the crash of rebellious Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin in Russia just an accident? In any case, many observers do not see this as a coincidence – including Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. He used the events as a template for a joke about Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin – and garnered loud laughter.
Even weeks after Prigozhin was killed in the crash of his private jet in Russia, suspicions arose again and again that Putin himself might have retaliated against the former ally in some kind of showdown. At the latest, Prigozhin had fallen out of favor with the Kremlin boss when he and his battlegroup Wagner marched just outside Moscow in an uprising.
Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, seems to be one of the skeptics of Russia’s official version. At the Balkan strategic forum on global security in Bled, Slovenia, he joked about Putin’s possible involvement. made videos of it immediately made the rounds on social media.
If a prime minister goes to Putin…
“I don’t know if you’ve heard that Russia is considering unifying time, because there’s a nine-hour time difference between one end of the country and the other,” Rama began the joke. “And the prime minister goes to Vladimir Putin and says, ‘Mr. President, we have a problem: I sent my family on vacation and called them to say good night. But for them it was already the next morning and they were already on the beach,” he continued.
“The plane hadn’t even taken off yet”
“I called Olaf Scholz to wish him an anniversary, but it didn’t happen until the next day. I called Xi Jinping to wish a happy new year, but for him it was old year.” Putin said, “Yes, that happened to me too. I called Yevgeny Prigozhin’s family to express my condolences, but the plane hadn’t even taken off yet,” Rama finished the joke.
The 59-year-old must have hit a nerve: the local audience appreciated the joke with loud laughter.
Source: Krone
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