I might just let people think I did it, so we don't get any more coups and generals criticizing my leadership and inner circle.
That's not how it works. This actually helps globohomo in every way possible.
You have to understand that there's a split in Russia just like everywhere else, reminiscent of the Russia criticisms in the "escaping the west" threads. There's a multitude of Russians who are very similar to their western counterparts as far as cultural decay. These Russians don't care about anything and by extension they're not going to care about any war with Satanic West.
The people in Russia that matter are the conservatives, patriots, people with self-worth and ideals, the religious, etc. These people need something to rally around and rallying around a president is not good enough. Not only do these people need to feel like the government is on their side, they also need to feel like politics is accessible to them, that they have a voice.
People need public figures, people that represent their ideals, especially in a war so that they can feel that with their support they're playing a contributing role. The only acceptable conclusion to a war is victory and people need to see desire and attempts at it. Can anyone here name someone in the Russian military command they admire right now? Not only are these guys dead but Surovikin is missing in action, Strelkov who played a major role in 2014 Ukraine has been arrested while enjoying a lot of support. All the grassroot commanders of the Donbass uprising have mysteriously been killed.
You can't tell people to "trust the plan", it's extremely patronizing and anyone in power knows better including Trump.
I understand people were worried Prigozhin was a rogue actor but now that he's dead we can let our guard down a bit. The average millionaire cannot just start a PMC and spend time with the boys all day. It takes a special pedigree of a man to do such things, even if he's a psychopath. Killing him just crushes faith in the system. If a man like that can be killed do I even matter at the end of the day?
This is like the United States killing Patton. Looking at the bigger picture of the war with it's many strange events it's honestly a lot worse.