Russia’s Disappearing Generals: What’s Going On?

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9 ай бұрын

Unveiling Russia's Intrigue: Unravel the shocking aftermath of Ukraine's war, from Wagner Group's failed coup to Putin's power play. Elite figures, shifting loyalties, and a nation in turmoil exposed.
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@ivansmirnoff6987 9 ай бұрын

That Ukrainian official liking the Russian officer's route right after he got assassinated is one of the most amazing moves ever.

@Frisia- 9 ай бұрын

cult like

@TSmith-yy3cc 9 ай бұрын

It really was.

@bruderschweigen6889 9 ай бұрын

@@Frisia-what?

@Frisia- 9 ай бұрын

@@bruderschweigen6889the comment is glorifying death against people not even in combat

@bjornborg4849 9 ай бұрын

Oh so you support terrorist attacks? Would you also support such an attack on e.g. George w bush?

@faiyoake 9 ай бұрын

Being a Russian general doesn’t historically lend itself to a long life span

@GYI5U 9 ай бұрын

Georgy Zhukov stay winning

@johnxscar 9 ай бұрын

still longer than a mobik

@mikek9297 9 ай бұрын

They're like imperial admirals under Vader...

@kimchi2780 9 ай бұрын

@@GYI5Uzhukov got screwed in the end though.

@galatheumbreon6862 9 ай бұрын

Aleksei Brusilov

@bronsonstrange3827 9 ай бұрын

Quick update: Prigozhin was just "confirmed" to be in an aircraft that crashed leaving no survivors between the 3 pilots and 7 passengers. With the clarity and integrity of Russian state media, there's no telling if he was already dead or not.

@chandlerwhite8302 9 ай бұрын

But the real question is, did he fall out of the window before the plane crashed???

@DangerB0ne 9 ай бұрын

@@chandlerwhite8302Maybe he's wondering why you would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.

@stormstalker2413 9 ай бұрын

@@chandlerwhite8302Clearly the plane accidentally fell out a window. Presumably after shooting itself twice in the back of the head.

@nihel3144 9 ай бұрын

@@stormstalker2413 The plane was actually secretly exiled to Belarus after peaceful negotiations with Lukashenko who approached it on a fighter jet

@gunslingerspartan 9 ай бұрын

@@DangerB0neif I take that off will you die?

@zegermanscientist2667 9 ай бұрын

In a country where 'Your husband was arrested and may not receive letters' means he has been shot, 'General Surovikin is under house arrest' probably means he was buried in his own garden.

@realliferevue 8 ай бұрын

Had to actually giggle

@StayPrimal 9 ай бұрын

Legend says that every time Simon open a new youtube channel, a Russian general goes missing.

@ssreeser95 9 ай бұрын

What do you think feeds Danny and Sam in the basement?

@daduzadude1547 9 ай бұрын

😂

@ilajoie3 9 ай бұрын

@@ssreeser95Fray Bento's steak and kidney pies

@naughtytoad 9 ай бұрын

❤lol

@Hyde_Hill 9 ай бұрын

He could be winning the war on his own lol.

@jay-t1030 9 ай бұрын

When conducting a coup you either fully commit or don’t get involved at all.

@RhysCampbell01 9 ай бұрын

It wasn’t a coup though was it

@jboy804 9 ай бұрын

@@RhysCampbell01 It was an attempted coup that didn't have enough support, so it was called off essentially. We live in a very strange reality but this is most likely case. Putin is so weak, he really can't publicly destroy Prigozhin, and it's hilarious.

@RhysCampbell01 9 ай бұрын

@@jboy804 for it to be a “coup” the aim needs to be explicitly to depose the current leader, which there’s no real evidence of

@7Beanss 9 ай бұрын

@@RhysCampbell01not a successful one.

@heybeter9505 9 ай бұрын

@@jboy804still insane that all prigozhin got was a time out in the naughty boy corner in belarus

@edonis2787 8 ай бұрын

Liking his run hours after his death is bloody hilarious. I can’t get over the genius combination of humour and an assassination.

@Taxidermista_de_Phobos 9 ай бұрын

Well, time to update this video, it's too old already. Spoiler alert: Yevgeny Prigozhin is no longer with us, he crashed his jet into a missile in a very reckless maneuver. Rest in pieces.

@zenmastermtl 8 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@malcolmabram2957 9 ай бұрын

Putin, "Ivan I will make you general." Ivan, "No, no please do not. Putin, "If you do not I will have you shot." Ivan, "That suits me fine, thank you for your mercy."

@spikey6694 9 ай бұрын

Actual footage taken from deep inside the Cremlin early this year

@kazekamiha 9 ай бұрын

@@spikey6694 Read that as Gremlin. XD

@al_the_crow 9 ай бұрын

putin is not in charge of the army tho?

@spikey6694 9 ай бұрын

@@al_the_crow it’s called a joke, also it’s Putin, he would legit try to control *EVERY* bit of Russia if he could…

@ashroskell 9 ай бұрын

This may seem off topic a bit, but bare with me please? I have become suspicious of the way this presenter pronouncedly mispronounces words and have begun to wonder if there is a purpose behind it? People want to comment and correct the mispronunciation. And they do, as I have seen. Russians do not pronounce the letter, “J,” as in, “Jesus.” Especially at the beginning of words. Moreover, this guy have never heard anyone else pronounce Gerasimov’s name the way he does. The general’s name is pronounced with a, “G,” “Guh,” for, “Gary, Graham and fat shiny Git.” As in, “General Gerasimov.” He mispronounces specific nouns that everyone can spot, so badly and so often, that I have become convinced that it is a, “technique,” he uses to get people to comment and, thus, boost the algorithm’s response to the videos? I used to think it might be some form of passive-aggression, trolling his audience, but I couldn’t see the point in it? What do you think? Am I going a bit mad? It’s just too common. In just about every video he settles on the weirdest pronunciations of one particular bit of grammar that are like nails on a chalkboard to so many ears that people write in the comment sections about it. Do you think it’s to get comments?

@santigimelli4208 9 ай бұрын

" he is resting"...there really was no more clear way of saying, "he has retired from this life"

@thevoid5503 9 ай бұрын

Gone for a nap out in the woods. A dirt nap,

@libertas5005 9 ай бұрын

You don't write "Rest in peace" on tombstones for naught

@NotWithMyMoney 9 ай бұрын

He was literally seen with his family today 😂

@Fu-orksGive.PEACE.achance. 9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂🐶

@galatheumbreon6862 9 ай бұрын

@@NotWithMyMoney proof?

@victoriarees4540 9 ай бұрын

Who's here after the plane crash?

@cmjdenver1 9 ай бұрын

Literally watched this video during work and then a hour later got a notification that Prigozhin died in a plane “accident”

@Coastfog 9 ай бұрын

Calling Dugina a journalist is like calling Simon's hairstyle "unkempt".

@buddhapork 9 ай бұрын

So… Technically true then 😉

@georgine321 9 ай бұрын

I find it interesting that Ivan Popov’s message to his troops was revealed by Andrey Gurulyov, a retired Russian colonel general, Duma deputy, and regular talking head on all of the Russian State TV that is available. Gurulyov also regularly calls for nuclear bombs to be dropped on Ukraine and any/all of NATO. It’s like watching GoT but with very ugly people who do truly horrific things all of the time...but no dragons.

@thedodorex7612 9 ай бұрын

But still fire like a dragon

@darkhobo 9 ай бұрын

@@thedodorex7612you mean hoard wealth like a dragon

@timbirch4999 9 ай бұрын

@@thedodorex7612Maybe if the dragon was old, senile, and was more likely to crash into home turf than anything else - if it ever took off at all.

@thedodorex7612 9 ай бұрын

@@timbirch4999 I meant nuclear and missile fire

@timbirch4999 8 ай бұрын

@@thedodorex7612 So did I. You think those missiles will still work after all this time?

@der_peevmeister 9 ай бұрын

Russian history in five words: _”And then it got worse…”_

@imgvillasrc1608 9 ай бұрын

*Slavic history

@PG-tas 9 ай бұрын

Time for a part 2

@Bildgesmythe 9 ай бұрын

Oh yes!

@brainwasher9876 9 ай бұрын

They haven't disappeared, this is a special window-opening operation.

@CodexQuinn 9 ай бұрын

They were fired. Not in the traditional sense of course, they were fired from a Cannon. Out of the Kremlins window.

@mahmud6042 9 ай бұрын

Watching this video as the world learns of Prigojin’s plane getting shot out of the sky above Tver in Russia. Great video!

@MykePagan 9 ай бұрын

Looks like Prigizhin wasn’t beyond reprisal today :-)

@amietinen 9 ай бұрын

Apparently Prigozjin and Utkin did a poor job avoiding high altitudes, looks like the both fell to their death today, while inside an airplane.

@poeticmic6219 9 ай бұрын

"Never let a good crisis go to waste"

@joeyjoejoeshabadoo1411 9 ай бұрын

Wonderful timing, who would have guessed Prigozhin's story would finish so soon. Haha

@natez2038 9 ай бұрын

As I’m watching this, I just saw an update that Prigozhins aircraft was shot down in Tver Region, Russia and he was listed as one of the passengers. Apparently Wagner confirmed this August 23, 2023.

@Enubatan 9 ай бұрын

Putin has finally solved the Prigozhin question today.

@chains2660 9 ай бұрын

We all know that if someone disappear in Russia it means you’ll never see them again

@sweetleaf9668 9 ай бұрын

Permanently resting .

@captaindonkeyballs 9 ай бұрын

Tragically discovered several days later having shot themselves multiple times in the back

@thodorisevangelakos 9 ай бұрын

Of all the things he could say, the statesman decided to say that "he's resting"? 😂

@NotWithMyMoney 9 ай бұрын

He’s literally alive and with his family today

@chrisdrake447 9 ай бұрын

@@captaindonkeyballs... and all that after having self-defenistrated from a 5th window. Must be something in the vodka.

@elliel5472 9 ай бұрын

Prighozin did well to last two months post coup, surprised it took them that long!

@joshuasuhaimi 9 ай бұрын

this aged well

@charlieboy13 9 ай бұрын

This aged well for Prigozhin

@themyth3686 9 ай бұрын

Like a random Ukraine news bro I saw said: "Putin only cares about loyalty. It doesn't matter if they don't yield results as long as they are loyal to him"

@pgbrown12084 9 ай бұрын

Sounds like someone else, too.

@chrisdrake447 9 ай бұрын

Putin doesn’t care about loyalty. He only cares about inducing sufficient fear in those around him to ensure the protection of his own arse and fortune. Classic gangster behaviour.

@transcendentalidiot3321 9 ай бұрын

@@pgbrown12084 To me, it sounds like any dictator, or dictator wanna-be.

@Historyandlegends789 9 ай бұрын

Just like Trump

@Silver_Prussian 9 ай бұрын

So basicaly trust me bro

@ghostrunner6815 9 ай бұрын

The irony that reports are saying the day this video released another commander was announced dead in mysterious circumstances.

@adamgroszkiewicz814 9 ай бұрын

5:55 That shot of Prigo dressed up like Sascha Baron Cohen from The Dictator was worth this entire watch

@IH-li5ir 9 ай бұрын

I’m literally watching this on my lunch break, and birthday, and simultaneously just got a notification that Prigozhin and Utkin were just reported dead in a plane crash… 😮😂

@stevewindsor3858 9 ай бұрын

"They have tragic accident, that hopefully others may learn from." - John Oliver on Putins many disappearing oppositions.

@snowbearer 9 ай бұрын

This rings eerily true with tonight's headlines...

@DeanMarano 9 ай бұрын

This hits even harder after Prigozhin's plane crash.

@walesruels 9 ай бұрын

This aged well. In 6 days 😂

@genericscout5408 9 ай бұрын

The loss of Russian generals is nothing new, in the USSR the entire fleet of the Navy got decapiated due to oranges in their plane causing it to roll over and crash.

@drbuckley1 9 ай бұрын

The most valuable asset in the Russian Navy is the tugboat.

@irishpatriotv2575 9 ай бұрын

It was rolls of Printing paper

@genericscout5408 9 ай бұрын

@@irishpatriotv2575 it was the admirals who overloaded the plane they packed it full of TV’s Fridges and anything else that they could fit on it. Not too different than the looting of washing machines on helicopters now really.

@tomhenry897 9 ай бұрын

That was the legal cargo It was overloaded with the generals person items

@MaddogMD82 9 ай бұрын

@@drbuckley1ah my fellow Admiral Kuznetsov connoisseur

@TrineDaely 9 ай бұрын

Surovikin was confirmed as being on house arrest "until he's forgotten," by Politico Europe yesterday. His subordinates can and do visit his apartment, as has his daughter. I'm sure his underlings are tapping him for ideas on how to handle the war, which would make sense as their most experienced general. He is to be basically out of sight and out of mind, but still has use to pootin with his experience. The butcher of Mariupol was sent to Wagner, another very experienced and brutal general, and I haven't heard anything about him since then. I hope Azov found him. Kadyrov hasn't been seen in a while, either. But some of his men are getting into shootouts with russian miitary or mobliks in Mariupol.

@12jswilson 9 ай бұрын

Even still, without Wagner and Prigozhin and Surovikin, Russia's best generals, or at least the ones that have gotten the best results, doesn't bode well for Russia winning the war in Ukraine

@TrineDaely 9 ай бұрын

@@12jswilson I'm sure they're still tapping Prigo and Armageddon for know-how and that's why they haven't had tea by a window yet. The less officers they have, the better!

@jessgunn6639 9 ай бұрын

MORE LIKE GENERAL GONE-ON-DON!

@mickvonbornemann3824 9 ай бұрын

@@jessgunn6639 They’re been recalled to prepare a rapid reaction force some 300 000 strong

@laars0001 9 ай бұрын

@@mickvonbornemann3824...because they handled the previous 300k so expertly and efficiently 🥴

@Matt-jc9kj 9 ай бұрын

Watching this after the "plane crash" makes it even more eerie.

@kromtastic 9 ай бұрын

Watching this now after Prigozhin "died" in the plane "accident"

@robertnelson3179 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the in-depth review of this ongoing situation. As one raised in the Cold War time frame I sometimes giggle at the people that saw USSR collapse and that all had changed but failed to see Putin as the old school operator he is come to power and act surprised at this and other events.

@bornonthebattlefront4883 9 ай бұрын

This Also the failure of Russia, it’s not able to pull together the resources of a dozen countries, Russia alone can only do so much

@BronzDano 9 ай бұрын

Russia doesn’t have as many generals as Simon does channels 😅

@seanosborn3272 9 ай бұрын

Your comments too long and rambley

@adrianfleming3437 9 ай бұрын

Well man look at all the fcking propaganda in the west at the start that made him out to be awesome. Ever think that maybe there a propaganda problem that caused that train of thought. You seem to forget about the western company raid into Russia in the 90s man and the propaganda around that.

@tonycrabtree3416 9 ай бұрын

The most hilarious thing is those that don’t realize US doing US things to keep the military industrial complex fed! You 🤡🤡🤡🤡

@alanbrown342 9 ай бұрын

Shocked, I am shocked. Actually, I immediately rushed to the comment section of this video - which I watched last week - under the illusion that I could write a snarky "breaking news" comment. It appears dozens of people already have.

@alanbrown342 9 ай бұрын

Although the latest news is that 10 people were on passenger list, 8 bodies were found. It's possible that Prigozhin isn't dead - maybe he even knew something was up. Not placing any bets, but wait and see ...

@sunil_de6856 9 ай бұрын

That part about Prigozhin still bing alive aged well...

@fledthehunter5293 8 ай бұрын

He is alive... in hell.

@briangallagher8881 9 ай бұрын

Can't wait to see the latest Warographics video on Prigozhin and the rest of the Wagner Group.

@greysessentials8937 9 ай бұрын

Another Simon video is just the way to start my day off. From here in anchorage Alaska keep up the amazing work!

@scottmcfarlane7524 9 ай бұрын

he is done with BIO, GEO and Today I found out fyi

@SoManyRandomRamblings 9 ай бұрын

Ditto

@alexmendoza4261 9 ай бұрын

Is he done with all the pages he's on?

@greysessentials8937 9 ай бұрын

@@alexmendoza4261hopefully the pages are endless😂

@greysessentials8937 9 ай бұрын

@@scottmcfarlane7524I hope not any reason?

@Code_7500 9 ай бұрын

Well presented, Yet again!

@varjen018 8 ай бұрын

Nice timing on the details and questions around Prigozhin here.

@haydennorthrup9111 9 ай бұрын

Good news, I figured out what happens to Prigozhin

@noahlogue 9 ай бұрын

These analysis videos are always so good.

@WolfricThorsson 9 ай бұрын

"As far as we can tell, Prigozhin is still alive and working with Wagner" Well.... that didn't age very well 😂

@RenegadeElite101 9 ай бұрын

Neither did prigozin

@Thurston86 9 ай бұрын

Just when I think I’ve seen all of Simon’s channels, I find _another_ one! He has to be the most prolific man on KZfaq.

@Tigerman1138 9 ай бұрын

I always thought videos I saw this guy narrating were the same channel. He has multiple?

@Novasux 9 ай бұрын

I think he may have sold biographies and geographical. Not positive tho

@bunyipdragon9499 9 ай бұрын

@@Novasuxhe doesn't own all the channels he narrates.

@cherniqhs 9 ай бұрын

@@bunyipdragon9499yep, he is just narrating the misinformation ( not meaning this video but other topics I found pure bs being portrait as facts and truth - historical topics around ww2 and space things )

@davemccombs 9 ай бұрын

Shameless clickbaiter*

@pryles2000 9 ай бұрын

I look forward to your follow up on this.

@halporter9 9 ай бұрын

This is really quite well researched, very helpful. Complicated material, well structured and accessible yet with sense for delicate nuance. All using material apparently in the public domain however obscure. I am impressed; but more important, this adds a dimension to public understanding. Thank you.

@kronosomni2805 9 ай бұрын

It's a shame, he was the co-founder of 3 other channels, Biographics, TopTenz, and Geographics, and today we found out from the one who owns them, Shannon, that Simon left and is being replaced, and all of those were similar to this channel. They were well written, researched, and Simon does a really good job of fluctuating his voice to make you understand the seriousness of what he is saying.

@kronosomni2805 9 ай бұрын

I should clarify, he left because of Shannon, she freely admits she wasn't a good boss in the video.

@Silver_Prussian 9 ай бұрын

Western sources are used as the sole truth with disregard for addition sources, to say its a bias representation of events is generous

@StayPrimal 9 ай бұрын

@@kronosomni2805 I think this is how Simon earn his life. He create a channel, bring it to 1 million subs then sell it. A lot of people are willing to pay for a running channel. Selling channels alone is not enough to make a living so this is where sponsors comes in.

@kronosomni2805 9 ай бұрын

@@StayPrimal Not even remotely close to what he is doing, big difference between "I left because my boss was a tw*t" and "I left because I sold it"

@danielsantiagourtado3430 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for these videos🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

@ayishatabdul6949 9 ай бұрын

And here we are, nearly a week after this was posted.. Prigizhin's private jet "falls" out of the sky.. I personally thought he would unfortunately "fall" out of a window somewhere.. Falling 24 thousand feet out the sky was close though 😕

@cmanmaxwell 9 ай бұрын

John wick strikes again

@xanmontes8715 8 ай бұрын

Such a tragedy how his airplane fell out a window xD

@TheBarachus 9 ай бұрын

This aged remarkably well, although not surprisingly

@MLaak86 9 ай бұрын

Surely they're not actually going missing - they're just being careless around windows.

@KW-qd1bi 9 ай бұрын

Just today (8-17-23) the death of general zhidko was announced . He lead the Ukraine invasion force for a brief period before his lack of success became too much to bear

@leandrosalexsandrovich179 9 ай бұрын

Damn not even a week after this came out it’s believed Prigozhin is believed to have died in a plane crash

@6thdayblue59 8 ай бұрын

So glad I found this Channel...... Fascinating

@davey7452 9 ай бұрын

The missing generals must have been walking too near an above floor window.

@jrmckim 9 ай бұрын

While carelessly smoking

@resileaf9501 9 ай бұрын

@@jrmckim And drinking tea

@TampaBossLady 9 ай бұрын

Guess this needs to be updated already.

@KAYVAANSHRIKE. 9 ай бұрын

Nice watch Simon.

@linzzzanity 9 ай бұрын

Very timely.

@dolphin8397 9 ай бұрын

I like to imagine Putin watching the closing points of this video, frantically taking notes😂

@Midnight_34 8 ай бұрын

He does not

@radder86 9 ай бұрын

Well, this didn't age well in a week. Haha. Still a great video and love your work

@muleskinnerfilms6719 9 ай бұрын

Well done!

@jacobkuntflapp 9 ай бұрын

This is truely awesome content

@anonymousrex5207 9 ай бұрын

Great timing on this video considering Prigozhin's plane crashed today under mysterious circumstances.

@badofcheese 9 ай бұрын

Mysteriously blown out of the sky by a SAM.

@kangaroocaliphate1577 9 ай бұрын

Even when Stalin purged 2/3 of the generals and officers of the Red Army they were lucky to have generals like Zhukov and talented tank engineers. The talent pool seems shallow even when compared to Stalins purged Red Army

@MetalMouse67 9 ай бұрын

Putin is doing a Mussolini here. Worst purge imaginable.

@merkvandermeulen3978 9 ай бұрын

And still lots of Russians consider themselves blessed to have a brilliant strategist like Putin at the helm. Difference is, this isn't 1914, nor 1944, nor 1984.

@donaldcarey114 9 ай бұрын

Truth be told you could purge 2/3 of the officers in the U.S. military and the country would end up with a much more effective Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine corps. (The same goes for the Coast Guard.)

@VajrahahaShunyata 9 ай бұрын

The purge tends to remove the most qualified... Leaving the loyal idiots...

@frankchan4272 9 ай бұрын

@@merkvandermeulen3978a poorly educated & limited access to factual information will make you believe anything. Also, if they use laws if don’t believe in current regime with threats of prison (modern day GULAG) or worse so you so will say what they want to say.

@lambrybryceviali751 9 ай бұрын

Luv da well support resurge...keep it up❤

@nomad3182 9 ай бұрын

That loose end you mentioned seems to have resolved itself

@evilfingers4302 9 ай бұрын

Russian Generals disappearing, reminds me of how many German Generals disappeared and were captured throughout WW2.

@razorburn645 9 ай бұрын

I'm assuming they just have the Austin Powers chairs that drop into an incinerator that Putin uses when he's upset.

@rocko7711 9 ай бұрын

Another fantastic video

@therchas 9 ай бұрын

Good overview

@willhendrix86 9 ай бұрын

Simon has to be the only KZfaqr that I know of that time and again starts and successfully runs 1M+ Subscriber channels over and over without fail. Hats off to your sir.

@NahThisIsPatrick 9 ай бұрын

and thats why 90% of people dont subscribe

@ihatesweetgumtrees 9 ай бұрын

UPDATE ON PRIGOZHIN: he (more than likely, still not totally confirmed) died in a plane crash this morning.

@theglz505 9 ай бұрын

Brilliant analysis 🥂✨

@motorosso3349 9 ай бұрын

Good analysis.

@bikkiikun 9 ай бұрын

Nice work... Thoug, I think you should have gone a little deeper on Shoigu. He is not just Defence Minister, he is an Oligarch... probably one of the richest and apart from Putin the most powerful one (maybe even more so...). And he has been around even before Putin. He is, in that regard a figure like Khodorkovsky. But unlike the former boss of Yukos, Shoigu knew how work the levers of power while staying out of the spot light and keeping the image of a loyal bureaucrat. Another aspect of Shoigu's that is important to this story, is the fact that his personal riches are THE Root Cause of the sorry state of the Russian armed forces. It's not like the Russian Government didn't put money into its military... Its just that a lot of this money "disappeared" along the way. And while Putin made many stupid decisions in the last two years... this issue should hav been known to him way before that. And this begs the question, why hasn't Putin removed Shoigu?? I mean, now of course this would look like givin in to Wagner's demands. But Putin had ample cause to remove Shoigu way before Prigozhin made such a stink. So, there is an interesting question: Is Putin just a puppet (of Shoigu's)?

@babychuma1 9 ай бұрын

The big problem with being a dictator is that there's no retirement plan.

@kjetilosthus6377 9 ай бұрын

Very good!

@timothygazda9441 9 ай бұрын

Your sarcasm is beautiful!! Great content also! Lol

@chrisdrake447 9 ай бұрын

Oh Simon & co! A fascinating assessment, but whatever it is that’s going on within and between the Russian Federation political and military hierarchies, the one thing it isn’t is “unprecedented “. It’s different now, compared to Stalin’s almost routine bouts of paranoid blood-letting, but it most definitely is not “unprecedented”.

@FajitaJim 9 ай бұрын

Simon is the only host I have to babysit my volume. Up, down, up, down, up, down. Simon, Volume Normalization is a thing!

@robertlortz4297 3 ай бұрын

We need a follow up video!!!

@markdavis1116 9 ай бұрын

Always good

@danecker6108 9 ай бұрын

I was watching this as the news of Prigozhin broke

@unwarranteddesign806 9 ай бұрын

Interestingly enough, we're now seeing the effects of Popov's removal in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The AFU has now bridged the Dnipro River in two places and are now within striking distance of the vital (for Russian logistics) Tokmak railway hub.

@recoil53 9 ай бұрын

This is the one that interested me the most. VDV units have been chewed up in Bakhmut. But he actually thinks like most trained generals and thinks about the preservation of his forces. Unlike many Russian generals, his soldiers like him. The Southern front is the most important to the Russians, guarding access to Crimea. Yet they remove a seeming capable and popular commander during the summer offensive.