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[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 185 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

His plane has crashed and he's on the passenger list, but it's not proven yet that he was on the plane. He's the person, who faked his death in the past.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I heard it played out exactly like the opening scene from Dark Knight Rises, too.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It seems like oddly coincidental timing that Russia also officially relieved Surovikin as head of the airforce today (he still hasn't been seen since the mutiny): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/23/russia-removes-sergei-surovikin-as-head-of-aerospace-forces

Not saying he's definitely dead, but I doubt this is him faking his own death so much as him slipping an assassination attempt if he's alive.

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[–] Smite6645@lemmy.dbzer0.com 119 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Impressive Russia was able to push an entire plane out of a high rise window.

[–] Trudge@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 1 year ago

If only America knew about this trick before 9/11

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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No more half measures, Vladmir waltuh

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[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Hexbear and default lemmy libs coming together to laugh at prigozhin getting merced is so goddamn funny lmao.

Literally the no more brother wars meme

[–] ImmortanStalin@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 year ago

Gotta take a moment to appreciate the little things

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[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm gonna sound like a fringe conspiracy theorist here, but you guys,,, What if this was no random accident? What if someone intentionally made the plane crash? But who? And why?

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[–] EphemeralSun@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I've never seen tankies and libs ever so united in celebration.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago (238 children)

It's as if leftists do not actually like Putin or any of the other ghouls on the Russian side, but are instead critical of NATO and willing to consider NATO opponents as rational actors instead of cartoon villains.

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I oppose NATO over other Ghoulish countries because it's a greater threat to the world right now.

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[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] timconspicuous@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He died so the lemmy community could heal 🕊

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[–] h3doublehockeysticks@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Never get on board a helicopter, and never go on board a plane if you just pissed off a guy famous for offing his political enemies. Come on guy, that's politics 101.

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago (56 children)

Guess you could say the plane was denazified.

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[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Plane crash" lol

They literally blew his nazi loving ass out of the sky.

[–] Pantrygheist@programming.dev 37 points 1 year ago

Well the plane did crash against the missiles sent towards it.

[–] RonJonGuaido@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

honestly how could you be stupid enough to get on plane w/ that guy? this was the single most predictable event of the entire conflict.

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[–] eatmyass@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If someone tells you they're not going to kill you, they're calming you down to kill you later

should've remembered this simple rule

[–] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The true Anon rules never miss

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago

brace-watching never get in a helicopter (or other small aircraft)

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 47 points 1 year ago (46 children)

Wait, am I reading this right that the plane was shot down by russian air defence? If this is backed up at all by anything like a russian source, then this will just further enforce option that russia can not be trusted to do anything it says and that putin is weak and threatened (both are true but I thought the kremlin would at least try to say/show otherwise).

How does russia keep messing up this bad? I am constantly shocked and awed.

[–] wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If that’s true. It’s not really a crash. It’s an execution

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[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 34 points 1 year ago (11 children)

then this will just further enforce option that russia can not be trusted to do anything it says and that putin is weak and threatened

If they let him live, they're weak. If they kill him, they're weak.

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

parenti-hands

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[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (9 children)

rip-bozo rest in piss ye won't be missed

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[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems like Putin may have held a grudge after all.

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[–] 2Xtreme21@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Was only a matter of time…

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[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

rip-bozo

cw suicide


two surface to air missiles to the back of the head is such a tragic way to commit suicide

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[–] Olympus@feddit.uk 38 points 1 year ago

I am shocked I tell you. Who could have predicted such an accident

[–] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago
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[–] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

My bad guys, first day on the anti-aircraft guns

[–] Emu@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I'm loving all the tankie tears in here. They don't know who to support. LOL. I love how ruZZia is slowly eating its own tail and destroying itself, just typical of a fascist state. Slava Ukraini! Slava NATO!

[–] Quimby@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

post better bait next time. this is way too obvious.

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[–] SoloboiNanook@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago

Lmao who is cryin u weirdo

[–] RonJonGuaido@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

yes, the people who love RUZZIA are absolutely fuming that Putin consolidated power.

fucking moron.

[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Slava Ukraini! Slava NATO!

you don't have to yell, we know you're a fascist

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin got tired of getting outranked by Prigo in the Chad-Cuck power ranking.

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[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

He's leading a Special Military Operation in the afterlife now.

[–] Echo71Niner@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Never discount that a deal was reached and this was their way or his way of going in retirement with a new identity - faked death.

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