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I'm just incredibly shocked by the fact that an admin of the instance lemmy.dbzer0.com is openly supporting Hamas.
Here's a link to the comment: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61235665/23634712
to answer your dirty edit, the country of Palestine doesn't even exist so they'd have no country to rule over. this isn't me taking a jab at Palestinians but acknowledging just how thorough the settler state has been at eliminating any "two state solution". and the governments of the world are too excited about eliminating Palestinians that they'd never allow a non-Zionist aligned party to rule over anything.
I mean if you're not interested in fully entertaining the hypothetical, realistically, Prigozhin was very unlikely to achieve much either. Not only would there be a threat to his legitimacy and life from Putin himself, but also even if he somehow got to Putin, it would drastically destabilize the government and open the door to a revolution or another coup. In authoritarian and fascist countries like Russia, everything rests on the figure of the leader.
Moreover, there's a difference between Prigozhin criticizing from the backseat and actually being the president. The West alone would be trying hard to offer him enough to get him to stop the war, and he'd not be as ideologically and historically entrenched in it as Putin to say no. An oligarch like him is highly opportunist.