Onion Explains: Putin's Russia

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The Onion

The Onion

9 жыл бұрын

How does Vladimir Putin run Russia’s hostile, authoritative regime? The Onion explains Putin’s Russia.
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@omarsudan6011
@omarsudan6011 2 жыл бұрын
"You either die believing the onion to be a satirical news report or live long enough to watch it become a reality"
@robertveith6383
@robertveith6383 2 жыл бұрын
OP -- You make no sense. The onion is a vegetable.
@tyro244
@tyro244 2 жыл бұрын
@@robertveith6383 Are you sure it's not a fruit? I was told it was a fruit.
@shaddowwxy3307
@shaddowwxy3307 2 жыл бұрын
Bravo bravo!! 👏🏼👍🏼
@vitohezzycallie8579
@vitohezzycallie8579 Жыл бұрын
@@robertveith6383 it identifies as a fruit
@DeShawnMcDonald
@DeShawnMcDonald Жыл бұрын
@Vito Hezzy Callie I'm pretty sure that's a slur now and they prefer to be called above ground edible substances.... fucking Twitter... lol
@incendiarybullet3516
@incendiarybullet3516 5 жыл бұрын
BREAKING NEWS: A journalist for "The Onion" recently killed himself while he slept by placing a pillow on top of his face, then shooting himself 9 times. More of this at 5.
@felixgutierrez993
@felixgutierrez993 5 жыл бұрын
Hmmmmmm did he cover this story later?
@FancyGonkBoi
@FancyGonkBoi 5 жыл бұрын
He got Epstein'd
@felixgutierrez993
@felixgutierrez993 5 жыл бұрын
@@FancyGonkBoi O O F
@Lerch-zc3ww
@Lerch-zc3ww 4 жыл бұрын
Beware of the self-inflicted airstrike.
@ipodtouch495
@ipodtouch495 4 жыл бұрын
Putin's government have expressed their sincere condolences, with Putin himself referring to it as the worst reported case of suicide that he's ever heard of.
@rebeccak9626
@rebeccak9626 5 жыл бұрын
It’s true - I criticised Russia’s economy and Putin called me a fatty. This terrorism cannot continue.
@wildcard9010
@wildcard9010 5 жыл бұрын
Fatty
@Arkoudeides.
@Arkoudeides. 5 жыл бұрын
He want ask you.
@caucasusmapper7098
@caucasusmapper7098 5 жыл бұрын
F A T T Y
@Silly_Illidan
@Silly_Illidan 4 жыл бұрын
That's cuz u maybe r
@NJ-wb1cz
@NJ-wb1cz 4 жыл бұрын
So many putins around here
@americawashington2700
@americawashington2700 9 жыл бұрын
Its interesting how Africa suddenly stopped existing
@1simo93521
@1simo93521 9 жыл бұрын
Just checked Google earth it's still there.
@QuentinT96
@QuentinT96 9 жыл бұрын
Simo bummer
@max010113
@max010113 6 жыл бұрын
so did iceland and greenland
@nekotamo5154
@nekotamo5154 6 жыл бұрын
Afri what? We don't care about some small, shitty foreign places. This is 'Murica!
@jjtomecek1623
@jjtomecek1623 6 жыл бұрын
Wait, what's Africa?
@dimitrispavlakis2590
@dimitrispavlakis2590 2 жыл бұрын
The Onion's time machine worked wonders once again.
@phdonme1
@phdonme1 2 жыл бұрын
The Onion, is everywhere all the time..
@sleazymeezy
@sleazymeezy 2 жыл бұрын
@@phdonme1 the word you're looking for is omnipotent.
@Afaustianbargainbin
@Afaustianbargainbin 2 жыл бұрын
@@sleazymeezy actually it’s omnipresent. As in present everywhere. Omnipotent means all POWERful
@kidfox3971
@kidfox3971 2 жыл бұрын
Because apparently the US alone sending billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine is standing off to the sidelines, I think the Ukrainians took ungratefulness lessons from Africans.
@DrMrPersonGuy
@DrMrPersonGuy Жыл бұрын
They don't have a time machine, they were just paying attention to what russia was already doing back then, whereas most weren't.
@joemonroe2249
@joemonroe2249 9 жыл бұрын
"If a man can't do a quad, what kind of man is he?" agreed
@halburd1
@halburd1 9 жыл бұрын
joe monroe so true. i can't do a quad. apparently that makes me not gay.
@LittleRainGames
@LittleRainGames 5 жыл бұрын
I fuck quads every day, you can really bend their legs back. I must be the manliest of men.
@Handkantenschlag
@Handkantenschlag 5 жыл бұрын
he is nothing
@meinname5788
@meinname5788 5 жыл бұрын
joe monroe You mean SQUAT!?
@Garium87
@Garium87 5 жыл бұрын
@@LittleRainGames 🙄
@whodis2828
@whodis2828 2 жыл бұрын
1:12 "Ukraine were pretty much alone on this one" Aged like wine of the fine variety
@helper_bot
@helper_bot 2 жыл бұрын
SHEEEEEEEEEESH LMAO
@nataliezementbeisser1492
@nataliezementbeisser1492 2 жыл бұрын
BURNED
@jeffreylebowski2440
@jeffreylebowski2440 2 жыл бұрын
they are not alone we supply them for free and we stopped business with russia
@mkultra2456
@mkultra2456 2 жыл бұрын
@@jeffreylebowski2440 Naw they're alone now.
@whodis2828
@whodis2828 2 жыл бұрын
​@@jeffreylebowski2440 flooding ukraine with weapons and putting a few sanctions on Russia? I bet that will help repel an army!
@AbnormalWrench
@AbnormalWrench 9 жыл бұрын
No one can fault Putin on his position with men's ice skating.
@hazukichanx408
@hazukichanx408 3 жыл бұрын
The gulags are a lot more fun since the introduction of free access ice skating rinks!
@tomsko863
@tomsko863 2 жыл бұрын
I see what you did there...
@wesleynichols1873
@wesleynichols1873 Жыл бұрын
"The most dangerous people are the ones I cannot find a high school year book for" - Vladimir Putin
@MrCmon113
@MrCmon113 4 жыл бұрын
This was pretty tame. Putin must have dirt on the Onion.
@ThalesWell
@ThalesWell 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah he has records of the Onion crying a lot.
@virginiagould3167
@virginiagould3167 4 жыл бұрын
...And there's that damning videotape of them saying "You too!" after the waitress told them to enjoy their meal.
@alexm566
@alexm566 3 жыл бұрын
He knows their incognito browser history.
@mediokay508
@mediokay508 2 жыл бұрын
@@virginiagould3167 or the time they pushed on a door with a pull sign.
@davidthomas9190
@davidthomas9190 8 жыл бұрын
This is why the onion is the only source of news I trust these days.
@geofacts6391
@geofacts6391 4 жыл бұрын
i cant like it
@ahmedelmasri9332
@ahmedelmasri9332 3 жыл бұрын
jesus , how bad are the news where you are from
@grandadmiralthrawn3164
@grandadmiralthrawn3164 2 жыл бұрын
@@ahmedelmasri9332 I believe that he was joking but in America news are that bad
@ahmedelmasri9332
@ahmedelmasri9332 2 жыл бұрын
@@grandadmiralthrawn3164 I know my friend, I was joking too
@grandadmiralthrawn3164
@grandadmiralthrawn3164 2 жыл бұрын
@@ahmedelmasri9332 During corona my television provider added a bunch of U.S news networks so that "we could follow corona events" and I checked them out. But they were so bad. On CNN you just have a bunch of liberals shit talking conservatives and on Fox there are conservatives shit talking liberals. It must be impossible to get actual news and not just propaganda. When watching news I will either watch the BBC when it is about world events, and otherwise I use the public service in my own country SVT (Sveriges Television).
@daviddavidov8398
@daviddavidov8398 5 жыл бұрын
Hard to read subtitles when you understand what he saying 😂
@victorvelie3980
@victorvelie3980 4 жыл бұрын
what was he actually saying?
@revuconsfection5689
@revuconsfection5689 4 жыл бұрын
@inc.opt.63 T-That can't be true. The onion's translation is top tier and it was obviously about the person not being man enough to do a quad.
@user-dz3nc1vs1g
@user-dz3nc1vs1g 4 жыл бұрын
Truzt me. I know vhat Mr. Pouteen had saiD.
@linasarizona
@linasarizona 3 жыл бұрын
@inc.opt.63 Actually you translated to nice .He sad bitch I wasn't in power and bla bla bla .
@shouko4218
@shouko4218 2 жыл бұрын
@inc.opt.63 I thought the onion would hire a a Russian speaker and just let a Putin clip play over the audio that is actually the translation of the subtitles dann
@DerFilc
@DerFilc 5 жыл бұрын
1:20 missed oppertunity to show switzerland as neutral
@Schwallex
@Schwallex 5 жыл бұрын
Missed opportunity to get the point. Yeah they could have gone with a joke so lame that even you can come up with it. Instead they chose to say something poignant that flies right over your head. And that is why you don't work for the Onion.
@sousabauski
@sousabauski 5 жыл бұрын
@@Schwallex Wow
@shahidakhuhro3490
@shahidakhuhro3490 5 жыл бұрын
@@Schwallex jesus christ calm your shit down OP didn't deserve your frustration
@bleuleuc6961
@bleuleuc6961 5 жыл бұрын
@@Schwallex feel any better?
@caucasusmapper7098
@caucasusmapper7098 5 жыл бұрын
@@Schwallex Plot twist - this guy writes for Onion
@user-md2ds2qh5i
@user-md2ds2qh5i Жыл бұрын
"by implying Kremlin's vast surveillance system" *shows London's surveillance system
@tomdiedrich8794
@tomdiedrich8794 9 жыл бұрын
The Onion never disappoints
@nerdswears9342
@nerdswears9342 9 жыл бұрын
Michael Diedrich Why no first?
@tomdiedrich8794
@tomdiedrich8794 4 жыл бұрын
The topical is great! Listen to it every day
@mho...
@mho... 2 жыл бұрын
sadly they are fully on point
@kooll2401
@kooll2401 2 жыл бұрын
it ageed well
@mishapurser7542
@mishapurser7542 4 жыл бұрын
I love how bluntly and matter of factly they explain things whilst slipping in jokes. The rest of the world really did basically do nothing when Crimea was annexed.
@AmelpsXett
@AmelpsXett 3 жыл бұрын
UN are assholes
@BellalisDope
@BellalisDope 2 жыл бұрын
Don’t they always? Nobody does anything unless it’s in their economic interests. Ukraine is not worth fighting for. So, good luck to them.
@Unkown5536
@Unkown5536 Жыл бұрын
@@BellalisDope well seems they’re doing pretty well
@lastkidonthemoon
@lastkidonthemoon 10 ай бұрын
​@@BellalisDopeIn a similar fashion the rest of the world had once decided that Austria, Czechoslovakia and eventually Poland weren't worth fighting for. Funny how the most ignorant people always have the strongest opinions.
@KayiWuzurg
@KayiWuzurg 10 ай бұрын
this aged like fine wine. ukraines losses are in 500k@@Unkown5536
@Fuckyoutooist
@Fuckyoutooist 9 жыл бұрын
I love how people don't realize that as much as this is a satire of Russia it's also a satire of the west. Great video as always Onion.
@PigeonFlare
@PigeonFlare 5 жыл бұрын
@elijah mikle No, no, no.. They literally only hinted at the West being to lenient on Russian aggression. Just- stop.
@MrSlanderer
@MrSlanderer 5 жыл бұрын
elijah mikle You’re such a tool.
@applebl3ach
@applebl3ach 5 жыл бұрын
@@PigeonFlare lmao he is right they are making fun of anti russian propaganda you dumbfucks
@stubbornwaldemar
@stubbornwaldemar 5 жыл бұрын
@@applebl3ach 1:20
@seanhartnett79
@seanhartnett79 4 жыл бұрын
Well it is true. This isn’t parody the truth. The men’s figure skating one is the only one that is satire.
@ffarkasm
@ffarkasm 5 жыл бұрын
1:26 R.I.P. Greenland. You will be missed.
@SKa-tt9nm
@SKa-tt9nm 4 жыл бұрын
ffarkasm and Africa. And Iceland.
@hazukichanx408
@hazukichanx408 3 жыл бұрын
Humanity's last hope of surviving the pandemic has just vanished. Now, we are on our own...
@Emoechaiti
@Emoechaiti 2 жыл бұрын
There's a whole continent missing and you're concerned about Greenland
@CosmicAggressor
@CosmicAggressor 2 жыл бұрын
This did not just age well. It did not freking age. It is current. When current events finally out do the onion you just dig a hole and crawl in it because we will then be beyond hope.
@libertarianboy1453
@libertarianboy1453 3 жыл бұрын
2:20 I understand russian. I can confirm the translation is legit
@dehistoriapisciumfish7639
@dehistoriapisciumfish7639 3 жыл бұрын
I understand just a tiny bit of Russian and this comment made me so confused xD
@importantname
@importantname 5 жыл бұрын
They forgot to mention that Putin has the best Your Mom jokes
@severrnijKGU
@severrnijKGU 3 жыл бұрын
oh no in russia, 'yer mama' jokes are not found funny by surrounding people. wouldnt even joke about their enemies' mamas. its too rude =O..O=
@sanluislfx4
@sanluislfx4 2 жыл бұрын
Whoever took the time to masterfully match the video and subs has my sincere gratitudes.
@soylentgreen6082
@soylentgreen6082 9 жыл бұрын
It's true. During the Winter Olympics the Russians accused athletes of deliberately flushing toilet paper despite the fact they were told it would clog the system... and they had the tapes to prove they were doing it !
@madmaxmedia
@madmaxmedia 2 жыл бұрын
Onion videos still relevant 7 years later…
@calebsmith1548
@calebsmith1548 2 жыл бұрын
1:16 Onion's writers are psychic
@devastationofmankind3495
@devastationofmankind3495 2 жыл бұрын
Okey it's confirmed, this guys have a time machine...
@dandellar200
@dandellar200 2 жыл бұрын
They have a super advance satellite that can brought cast news from the future. It's canon.
@theemirofjaffa2266
@theemirofjaffa2266 4 жыл бұрын
"If a man can't do a quad, what kind of a man is he?" Dang! That hit me hard! I cant even lift one leg without falling all over..smh
@metal665lica
@metal665lica 2 жыл бұрын
March 2022 This video hits HARD
@themaidenlesswretch7819
@themaidenlesswretch7819 2 жыл бұрын
this used to be considered absurd.
@giacomomeluzzi280
@giacomomeluzzi280 5 жыл бұрын
Now that I'm learning russian I understand how german people feel when watching the Hitler's rant parodies ahah
@severrnijKGU
@severrnijKGU 3 жыл бұрын
he was talking about a disposition? and i heard the word 'government' in there. he was like 'and then in order for it to mean something?' . людей.. (ты) говоришь.. о том. 'the people ... you are talking .. about. '
@APNambo
@APNambo 2 жыл бұрын
I love how they translated Putin with similar pauses and tone as his speech. It's all about the details. Well done!
@pierrecurie
@pierrecurie 9 ай бұрын
What was Putin actually saying in that clip?
@yusouph2002
@yusouph2002 9 ай бұрын
​@@pierrecuriesomething about Syria conflict at first (you can hear him mentioning Assad). Then he was talking about him having less influence under the Medvedev rule, and how he didn't control the law enforcement or justice system in that period of time.
@Mandelbrotmat
@Mandelbrotmat 2 жыл бұрын
well.......this has certainly aged appropriately
@gorillaguerillaDK
@gorillaguerillaDK 5 жыл бұрын
To be fair, Plushenko was Amazing...
@rzul
@rzul 5 жыл бұрын
Russian spy
@Frosty_tha_Snowman
@Frosty_tha_Snowman 2 жыл бұрын
This has aged much too well
@leninstreet
@leninstreet 9 жыл бұрын
Not normally one to endorse any of Putin's garbled visions but when he is right he is right.
@dangerouslytalented
@dangerouslytalented 9 жыл бұрын
leninstreet Yep, they were robbed at the winter games.
@Pandamasque
@Pandamasque 9 жыл бұрын
leninstreet which is never, figure skating aside.
@leninstreet
@leninstreet 9 жыл бұрын
***** Yeah but in figure skating he is making a lot of good points. Nobody can take that away from him.
@OrangeJews1138
@OrangeJews1138 8 жыл бұрын
Why don't you move to Russia then.
@leninstreet
@leninstreet 8 жыл бұрын
+OrangeJews1138 Because there are more important things then figure skating.
@sudonim7552
@sudonim7552 6 жыл бұрын
You joke about it, but learning about people's embarrassing secrets is exactly how the Church of Scientology stifles dissent
@tristansloane2639
@tristansloane2639 5 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how long the onions been around yet u stil get people thinking it's real
@thundersoul6795
@thundersoul6795 4 жыл бұрын
One born every minute!
@H56638
@H56638 5 ай бұрын
It is simply yet to be real.
@anima94
@anima94 9 жыл бұрын
loved how they managed to mostly not get too political even with this kind of subject, good job
@phatcatrat
@phatcatrat 9 жыл бұрын
DarkAnimaYT You can guarantee, despite its non-political presentation, someone will manage to politicize the video in the comment section.
@furqueue9590
@furqueue9590 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah because the murderer of thousands of journalists, business opponenents and any risk to power - including the murder of the leader of political opposition Boris Nemtov in 2015 - www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways - uk.businessinsider.com/list-of-people-putin-is-suspected-of-assassinating-2016-3 - www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11799424 - www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-20170325-story.html - www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2016/jan/04/does-vladimir-putin-kill-journalists/ - www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-police-evidence-russian-assassins-behind-14-suspicious-deaths-british-soil-boris-berezovsky-scot-a7793151.html And these are just the high profile deaths. If you want to be really depressed, Google journist murders in Russia - it reads like a phone book. But yeah! great comment! No reason to get too political, right? You are a complete -
@dcscorch969
@dcscorch969 6 жыл бұрын
It's the onion
@kayleegregory770
@kayleegregory770 6 жыл бұрын
I used to get political. But the I took a "liberal" to the knee.........
@user-eu6zm5yr2l
@user-eu6zm5yr2l 4 жыл бұрын
@@furqueue9590 Seems like someone isa bit too salty.
@p_adam19
@p_adam19 2 жыл бұрын
1:02 This aged perfectly
@JohnDoe-or8jd
@JohnDoe-or8jd 3 жыл бұрын
I criticized Russian state and Putin called me a communist. He thought it was an insult.
@understorymainchannel8326
@understorymainchannel8326 3 жыл бұрын
Commie This is a joke
@AmelpsXett
@AmelpsXett 2 жыл бұрын
it is though
@Tertion
@Tertion 2 жыл бұрын
Seriously, KZfaq algorythm is wild lately....
@nativeafroeurasian
@nativeafroeurasian 4 жыл бұрын
1:25 Afroca, Greenland and Iceland thank the editors of the map😂😂
@talongeorge3750
@talongeorge3750 Жыл бұрын
1:15 aged like fine wine
@dinuffin
@dinuffin Ай бұрын
How?
@hboyO2
@hboyO2 2 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, this aged like fine wine (just like any onion video tho)
@that__guy_5049
@that__guy_5049 2 жыл бұрын
And then it all came true.
@prisonmike4126
@prisonmike4126 2 жыл бұрын
Wow this aged amazingly actually 😂
@maxpopov3972
@maxpopov3972 9 жыл бұрын
that's funny how at the end subtitles are saying the ice skating when really is talking about Syrian crisis lol
@jamarbrown8924
@jamarbrown8924 2 жыл бұрын
Everything makes sense now
@USMCSEMPERFIDEVILDOG
@USMCSEMPERFIDEVILDOG 2 жыл бұрын
They got Ukraine right😂
@markofsaltburn
@markofsaltburn 2 жыл бұрын
The “This aged well” comments have aged well.
@mistahsusan2650
@mistahsusan2650 2 жыл бұрын
this "these "this aged well" comments aged well" comment, aged well.
@IceAxe1940
@IceAxe1940 2 жыл бұрын
This "This these comments" comments have age well.
@Davesoft
@Davesoft 9 жыл бұрын
Haha nice.My favourite description of russia so far "That country that's hilarious until it Suddenly Isn't!"
@achintyanaithani889
@achintyanaithani889 4 жыл бұрын
The hell does that even mean?
@CF-bg3jd
@CF-bg3jd 2 жыл бұрын
2022 here, that moment where it isn’t has officially came.
@deborahharris2962
@deborahharris2962 2 жыл бұрын
This has aged well.
@pepperoniboy57
@pepperoniboy57 2 жыл бұрын
damn you and your prophetic writers the onion™
@festungkurland9804
@festungkurland9804 2 жыл бұрын
If only we had listened
@grig8310
@grig8310 4 жыл бұрын
2:20 I’m Russian and this scene was even funnier because I actually understood what he was saying
@alicehopkins4068
@alicehopkins4068 2 жыл бұрын
same haha
@PrincessLockette
@PrincessLockette 2 жыл бұрын
What was he saying?
@andreykravchenko6829
@andreykravchenko6829 2 жыл бұрын
@@PrincessLockette He was talking about Syria and Assad at first, then he was saying he didn't have as much influence when medvedev was president for 4 years
@AndrewGunner
@AndrewGunner 2 жыл бұрын
@@andreykravchenko6829 he said he had absolutely no influence on protection of rights during the 4 years, not just "not as much influence".
@ma-tanica
@ma-tanica 9 ай бұрын
​@@andreykravchenko6829stop spreading misinformation, subtitles exactly match his speech 😂
@JapanesePiano1
@JapanesePiano1 2 жыл бұрын
This aged well
@Weeeui
@Weeeui 2 жыл бұрын
It's a satire but so true today especially Ukraine part :(
@darknessblades
@darknessblades 2 жыл бұрын
Have you lived under a rock. The onion's press are made out of time travelers, though they just set their clocks wrong so they got the dates wrong. causing it to be released early
@CC-bu2gv
@CC-bu2gv 2 жыл бұрын
@@darknessblades oh yeah forgot about that
@atomheartother
@atomheartother 9 жыл бұрын
Well that's a lot of uploads. Go Onion.
@gigabic7487
@gigabic7487 9 жыл бұрын
Combo [x2]!
@halburd1
@halburd1 9 жыл бұрын
atomheartother fox is to cnn what cnn is to the onion.
@Zale666
@Zale666 9 жыл бұрын
Lol this is a joke, its a parody of western MSM
@gaius100bc
@gaius100bc 2 жыл бұрын
This piece aged like fine wine
@Blacki_Hanma
@Blacki_Hanma 2 жыл бұрын
1:13 aged too well
@sinekonata
@sinekonata 9 жыл бұрын
Your Africa-less map is brilliant :D
@pinkdoe1725
@pinkdoe1725 5 жыл бұрын
No
@AndrewGunner
@AndrewGunner 4 жыл бұрын
also no Greenland..
@mastervolotaaofvoltaria4360
@mastervolotaaofvoltaria4360 2 жыл бұрын
And South America
@masonmorgan4
@masonmorgan4 2 жыл бұрын
This be hitting different now...
@twiniki5186
@twiniki5186 3 жыл бұрын
KZfaq has a weird sense of humour to reccomend me this after Navalny's condemnation
@DanieleGiorgino
@DanieleGiorgino 9 жыл бұрын
I was starting to think that the Onion was beginning to lose it. So glad to see that I was wrong.
@internetuser1231
@internetuser1231 2 жыл бұрын
I said Putin maybe shouldn't have poisoned that one guy and the FSB called my mum gay! 😭 It felt like a hypersonic missile to the heart. 💔
@kosmo4633
@kosmo4633 Жыл бұрын
Haha that Ukraine joke aged like fine wine.
@user-wq9mw2xz3j
@user-wq9mw2xz3j 2 жыл бұрын
2022 history repeats itself. This time Russia russia thought they might try "small girls' skating" but lost in that as well
@ganduss
@ganduss 2 жыл бұрын
1:02 just like the simulations
@loangxuong9863
@loangxuong9863 3 жыл бұрын
Some one needs to show Putin this. He must laughs his ass off.
@Jestiphur
@Jestiphur 2 жыл бұрын
The Onion was quite literally ahead of it's time. Holy crap...
@nikhilsaxena2801
@nikhilsaxena2801 3 жыл бұрын
Putin didn't liked a news channel and vegetablised its name, now its called the onion.
@drrodopszin
@drrodopszin 2 жыл бұрын
Well this escalated quickly... In 7 years.
@thedixiebois1742
@thedixiebois1742 2 жыл бұрын
Wait what?!? This video was 6 years ago?!?!? 😬 how long has this thang been goin on????
@TheJewishAzovMember
@TheJewishAzovMember 2 жыл бұрын
Since 2014. The world just kinda pretended it wasn't happening for some odd reason even tho this video is proof that anyone who paid the slightest attention realized whats going to happen.
@TheLethalGuy
@TheLethalGuy 2 жыл бұрын
Welcome back to this video after 6 years
@HelTra91
@HelTra91 Жыл бұрын
I laughed out loud when Plushenko's face appeared
@mutated_almond8335
@mutated_almond8335 Жыл бұрын
This one really aged
@christianjones-hickey7261
@christianjones-hickey7261 5 жыл бұрын
I adore the fact that there are clueless people who think this is an actual short documentary
@seanhartnett79
@seanhartnett79 4 жыл бұрын
Christian Jones-Hickey well the only part not true is the skating part.
@nosuchthing8
@nosuchthing8 4 жыл бұрын
I guess you can't do quads.
@joshuaboyd487
@joshuaboyd487 2 жыл бұрын
It turned into one
@VladTerrible
@VladTerrible 2 жыл бұрын
1:02 Damn, this aged like wine
@solarianinquisitor3978
@solarianinquisitor3978 2 жыл бұрын
Why is Eritrea the only country left in Africa?
@user-zy8cy6hn6o
@user-zy8cy6hn6o Жыл бұрын
All these comments saying the Onion predicted the future are missing that this video came out around an entire year after Crimea was invaded in 2014
@athishmarutharaj6001
@athishmarutharaj6001 2 жыл бұрын
This hits hard now
@GrumpyGremlin.
@GrumpyGremlin. 2 жыл бұрын
One thing I love about Onion is that their news and opinions are always unbiassed
@evenfate5906
@evenfate5906 Жыл бұрын
"Pretty much on their own" just wow, that is just wow. No other words describe how accurate the onion is.
@greglarson4253
@greglarson4253 2 жыл бұрын
"Ukrain is pretty much alone on this one." This aged well.
@WhirlwindHeatAndFlash
@WhirlwindHeatAndFlash Жыл бұрын
As a westerner it is so frustrating to witness all of this.. Governments aside from the US pretty much doing nothing.. the local populace actively opposing action against russia.. I hate this planet and its godforsaken population.
@edition-deluxe
@edition-deluxe Жыл бұрын
This didn't age well.
@Jacxb16
@Jacxb16 Жыл бұрын
There was another Ukraine war in 2014 and this video was made in 2015 so it wasn't supposed to age well.
@daikucoffee5316
@daikucoffee5316 Жыл бұрын
It aged extremely well actually
@AndreyDo
@AndreyDo 9 жыл бұрын
Love that! Onion brillant as usiall! )) Great "translation" of what he was saying... So funny ))
@PierceMD
@PierceMD 2 жыл бұрын
Perfect time!
@Fritz_Haarmann
@Fritz_Haarmann Жыл бұрын
Just sent this to my Russian nationalist friend. I might give an update depending on if he responds.
@Fritz_Haarmann
@Fritz_Haarmann Жыл бұрын
just reply to remind me
@FlatEarthKiller
@FlatEarthKiller Жыл бұрын
@@Fritz_Haarmann did he?
@Fritz_Haarmann
@Fritz_Haarmann Жыл бұрын
@@FlatEarthKiller Yes, but he answered in Русский. Also told me what Michael means in Russian.
@FlatEarthKiller
@FlatEarthKiller Жыл бұрын
@@Fritz_Haarmann can you translate everything he said to eng
@Fritz_Haarmann
@Fritz_Haarmann Жыл бұрын
@@FlatEarthKiller Nah, I only speak English, German and Latin.
@arnoldzilban8274
@arnoldzilban8274 9 ай бұрын
Thank you ONION! You always peel off the pretentious layers of human deceit and get right to the ridiculous heart of the matter. Keep on Onionizing our helpless and hopeless reality.
@mikey7257
@mikey7257 9 жыл бұрын
More of these please
@TheAHuman
@TheAHuman 2 жыл бұрын
1:25. This hits differently now. Still the same stance though
@AshleyBurgoyne
@AshleyBurgoyne 2 жыл бұрын
1:16: Yeah that didn't age well
@helloworld4990
@helloworld4990 2 жыл бұрын
It aged perfectly lol
@luzmaria5006
@luzmaria5006 2 жыл бұрын
@@helloworld4990 Indeed, Ukraine is in his own once again lol
@0doublezero0
@0doublezero0 2 жыл бұрын
Deadass wrong about the world being okay with Russian aggression. They are definitely neutral.
@dinuffin
@dinuffin Ай бұрын
​@@helloworld4990How?
@Pangolin-Mandolin
@Pangolin-Mandolin 2 жыл бұрын
Freaky how true some of this now is.....
@spacedplate
@spacedplate 9 ай бұрын
This aged like warm milk left oitside in the sun
@StevieObieYT
@StevieObieYT Жыл бұрын
2016: Ukraine is not worth fighting for. 2023: We will all die for Ukraine!!
@jakubgrimm575
@jakubgrimm575 11 ай бұрын
🇩🇪🇺🇦🇩🇪🇺🇦
@SovietReunionYT
@SovietReunionYT 9 ай бұрын
We will all die = We will send a little bit of money and some old weapons. Maybe throw in a handful of modern equipment so we can get good press coverage.
@jakubgrimm575
@jakubgrimm575 9 ай бұрын
@@SovietReunionYT I would much rather live in a Western world than a Russian world. No amount of Russian Propaganda will change that.
@yusouph2002
@yusouph2002 9 ай бұрын
​@@SovietReunionYTa bit of money = 200 billion dollars. Yeah, just a bit...
@affordablex4914
@affordablex4914 9 ай бұрын
@@yusouph2002200 billion dollars worth of old ass stockpiles of shells* Your comment ignores the fact that the west actually saves money by giving Ukraine weapons as they don’t need to waste money on storage or maintenance.
@dmitritelvanni4068
@dmitritelvanni4068 Жыл бұрын
Ahh the good old days
@quelorepario
@quelorepario 5 жыл бұрын
If you shave Stalin's moustache you are left with Putin.
@magottyk
@magottyk 9 жыл бұрын
But is Putin skating on thin ice?
@fds7476
@fds7476 9 жыл бұрын
magottyk It won't become a problem until he starts doing those quads...
@christobanistan8887
@christobanistan8887 5 жыл бұрын
groan
@justinian-the-great
@justinian-the-great 5 жыл бұрын
Well, Putin plays ice hockey, sooo.......technically, he does.
@Slaktrax
@Slaktrax 5 жыл бұрын
...Not as thin as Trump's.
@snesmocha
@snesmocha 2 жыл бұрын
... why is this so accurate....
@ilkeryoldas
@ilkeryoldas 9 жыл бұрын
This series is really good
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