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Putin breaks silence on Wagner boss Prigozhin, presumed dead in plane crash (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Russian president Vladimir Putin breaks his silence on the plane crash a day earlier that reportedly killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and other senior...

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin says. "He was a man of complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in his life, but he achieved the right results."

well, for sure his mistake was to question Putin’s power. And the right results was that he… died?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

These are just word soups. Don’t try to make sense of the speech of the chronically dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

Anybody got a transcript, or just relevant quotes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Got this from the Piped description, but also didn't watch:

Russian president Vladimir Putin breaks his silence on the plane crash a day earlier that reportedly killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin and other senior members of the Wagner paramilitary group. "I have known Yevgeny Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early 1990s," Putin says. "He was a man of complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in his life, but he achieved the right results."

[+] [email protected] -16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

…It’s not even a minute and a half long; really?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not OP, but you can skim a news article in 10/20 seconds.

Why should people watch videos that take 10x more time and, more often than not, don't offer anything besides narration since most just use recycled footage anyways?

You've gotta read anyways what he says since we don't understand Russian, but now we don't have as much control over the content.

Accessibility aside, I really dislike the video-centric internet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I genuinely don't understand why people watch YouTube tutorials for coding - it's not a particularly visual subject and most tutorials could be written out in an article that takes a minute to read.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP didn't say anything about the length. Some of us are in a dark, quiet room, beside someone who is sleeping. We don't want to watch a video, we want to read stuff.

Also, how the fuck are we supposed to know how long it is without clicking on it?

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

I don't want to watch a video. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Swiped to fast and thought he is wearing a party hat on this picture. Now can't be unseen.