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

@GYI5U

11 ай бұрын

Georgy Zhukov stay winning

@johnxscar

11 ай бұрын

still longer than a mobik

@mikek9297

11 ай бұрын

They're like imperial admirals under Vader...

@kimchi2780

11 ай бұрын

​@@GYI5Uzhukov got screwed in the end though.

@galatheumbreon6862

11 ай бұрын

Aleksei Brusilov

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

@Frisia-

11 ай бұрын

cult like

@TSmith-yy3cc

11 ай бұрын

It really was.

@bruderschweigen6889

11 ай бұрын

​@@Frisia-what?

@Frisia-

11 ай бұрын

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

@bjornborg4849

11 ай бұрын

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

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

11 ай бұрын

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

@DangerB0ne

11 ай бұрын

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

@stormstalker2413

11 ай бұрын

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

@nihel3144

11 ай бұрын

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

@gunslingerspartan

11 ай бұрын

​@@DangerB0neif I take that off will you die?

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

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

@ssreeser95

11 ай бұрын

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

@daduzadude1547

11 ай бұрын

😂

@ilajoie3

11 ай бұрын

​@@ssreeser95Fray Bento's steak and kidney pies

@naughtytoad

11 ай бұрын

❤lol

@Hyde_Hill

11 ай бұрын

He could be winning the war on his own lol.

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

@RhysCampbell01

11 ай бұрын

It wasn’t a coup though was it

@jboy804

11 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

11 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

11 ай бұрын

​@@RhysCampbell01not a successful one.

@heybeter9505

11 ай бұрын

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

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

11 ай бұрын

Had to actually giggle

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

11 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

11 ай бұрын

Actual footage taken from deep inside the Cremlin early this year

@kazekamiha

11 ай бұрын

@@spikey6694 Read that as Gremlin. XD

@al_the_crow

11 ай бұрын

putin is not in charge of the army tho?

@spikey6694

11 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

11 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?

I was watching this as the news of Prigozhin broke

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

@imgvillasrc1608

11 ай бұрын

*Slavic history

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

11 ай бұрын

But still fire like a dragon

@darkhobo

11 ай бұрын

​@@thedodorex7612you mean hoard wealth like a dragon

@timbirch4999

11 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

11 ай бұрын

@@timbirch4999 I meant nuclear and missile fire

@timbirch4999

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@thevoid5503

11 ай бұрын

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

@libertas5005

11 ай бұрын

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

@KillALLconservatives

11 ай бұрын

He was literally seen with his family today 😂

@Fu-orksGive.PEACE.achance.

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂🐶

@galatheumbreon6862

11 ай бұрын

@@KillALLconservatives proof?

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

@buddhapork

11 ай бұрын

So… Technically true then 😉

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

Who's here after the plane crash?

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

@CodexQuinn

11 ай бұрын

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

"Never let a good crisis go to waste"

Time for a part 2

@Bildgesmythe

11 ай бұрын

Oh yes!

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

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

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

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

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

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

11 ай бұрын

Sounds like someone else, too.

@chrisdrake447

11 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

11 ай бұрын

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

@Historyandlegends789

11 ай бұрын

Just like Trump

@Silver_Prussian

11 ай бұрын

So basicaly trust me bro

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

@sweetleaf9668

11 ай бұрын

Permanently resting .

@captaindonkeyballs

11 ай бұрын

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

@thodorisevangelakos

11 ай бұрын

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

@KillALLconservatives

11 ай бұрын

He’s literally alive and with his family today

@chrisdrake447

11 ай бұрын

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

this aged well

Putin has finally solved the Prigozhin question today.

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

11 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

11 ай бұрын

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

@seanosborn3272

11 ай бұрын

Your comments too long and rambley

@adrianfleming3437

11 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

11 ай бұрын

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

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

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.

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… 😮😂

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

This aged well. In 6 days 😂

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

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

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

11 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

11 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

11 ай бұрын

MORE LIKE GENERAL GONE-ON-DON!

@mickvonbornemann3824

11 ай бұрын

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

@laars0001

11 ай бұрын

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

This hits even harder after Prigozhin's plane crash.

This aged well for Prigozhin

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

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

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 KZread.

@Tigerman1138

11 ай бұрын

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

@Novasux

11 ай бұрын

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

@bunyipdragon9499

11 ай бұрын

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

@cherniqhs

11 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

11 ай бұрын

Shameless clickbaiter*

Good news, I figured out what happens to Prigozhin

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

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

11 ай бұрын

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

@irishpatriotv2575

11 ай бұрын

It was rolls of Printing paper

@genericscout5408

11 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

11 ай бұрын

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

@MaddogMD82

11 ай бұрын

​@@drbuckley1ah my fellow Admiral Kuznetsov connoisseur

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

@scottmcfarlane7524

11 ай бұрын

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

@SoManyRandomRamblings

11 ай бұрын

Ditto

@alexmendoza4261

11 ай бұрын

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

@greysessentials8937

11 ай бұрын

@@alexmendoza4261hopefully the pages are endless😂

@greysessentials8937

11 ай бұрын

@@scottmcfarlane7524I hope not any reason?

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

@RenegadeElite101

11 ай бұрын

Neither did prigozin

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

11 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 ...

Well presented, Yet again!

These analysis videos are always so good.

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

@fledthehunter5293

10 ай бұрын

He is alive... in hell.

Nice timing on the details and questions around Prigozhin here.

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

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

I look forward to your follow up on this.

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

11 ай бұрын

John wick strikes again

@xanmontes8715

10 ай бұрын

Such a tragedy how his airplane fell out a window xD

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

@jrmckim

11 ай бұрын

While carelessly smoking

@resileaf9501

11 ай бұрын

@@jrmckim And drinking tea

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

11 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

11 ай бұрын

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

@Silver_Prussian

11 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

11 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

11 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"

This aged remarkably well, although not surprisingly

This is truely awesome content

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

Thanks for these videos🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

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

@RegenXF1

11 ай бұрын

He does not

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

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

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

Very timely.

Guess this needs to be updated already.

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

@badofcheese

11 ай бұрын

Mysteriously blown out of the sky by a SAM.

Simon has to be the only KZreadr 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

11 ай бұрын

and thats why 90% of people dont subscribe

Another fantastic video

Your sarcasm is beautiful!! Great content also! Lol

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

Ok, this video was superseded by events very quickly

Well done!

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

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

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

Nice watch Simon.

Brilliant analysis 🥂✨

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”.

Watching this video when the news of Yevgeny Prigozhin airplane “crash” broke the news. Seems fitting, Putin finally removed him.

Good analysis.

Good overview

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

11 ай бұрын

Putin is doing a Mussolini here. Worst purge imaginable.

@merkvandermeulen3978

11 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

11 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

11 ай бұрын

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

@frankchan4272

11 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.

Any channel this man posts I will watch. Who’s with me?

That loose end you mentioned seems to have resolved itself

Very good!

Considering which Russians plane was just blown out if the sky i'd say that this video was a little ahead of its time

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

11 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.

Simon was on point, at the time.

Love your stuff but every time i see you I can’t help but be reminded of Dr. Venture from the Venture Brothers. Keep up the great work!

Russian generals are disappearing?! Oh no! Oh well. Anyways...

"This video is getting more views than usual!" -KZread analytics, Aug. 23, 2023

Congrats on the Rolex, Simon! Moving on up in the world. Lol

We need a follow up video!!!

I guess today we can add a new name to that list today

What fortuitous timing

omg listening to this on the 24th of August 😮😮😮, another one bites the dust.

This needs updating