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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's toxic, it sucks. Like we need to know what's going on but it's just exhausting to follow.

My college roommate texted me yesterday: "lol Wagner died in a plane crash"

"Who?"

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll assume your roommate isn’t majoring in geopolitics.

[–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 16 points 1 year ago

Or, on the contrary, he could be much more verse than we realize and know that Wagner was also the callsign of one of the Prigozhin's mercs, who basically gave the PMC its name. The real name is Dmitry Utkin, if that's his real name, of course.