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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Interesting take. I would have gone for "A known enemy of Putin suddenly dies in a plane crash over Russian airspace."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least it isn’t another freak autodefenestration. Those were starting to get boring.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not like it's unprecedented for them to blow up a plane, but yeah, they were definitely getting stuck in a defenestration rut these last few years interspersed with people "getting sick".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you think about it, blowing up a plane in flight is just the highest possible form of defenestration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But there's no window involved

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Missiles are just high-speed window installation devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Windows 95, ensuring that it crashes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Most planes have windows by I see what you mean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know about that, what about space ships and stations?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being over Russian airspace was the stupid move here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely. Expecting to live after calling off the coup was the stupid move here. He crossed the Rubicon when he seized Rostov. After that, it was win or die and he ruled out winning. It wasn't hard to figure out what would happen next.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are correct. Doesn't make it an unstupid death though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, well, well. If it isn’t the consequences of my actions!

  • Wagner guy probably
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

under Russian airspace, technically