• @Cjwii@lemm.ee
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    22 years ago

    Why does this quote seem… Inaccurate? I’ve seen Muskrat speak a few times and he’s seemed to have a basic understanding of the English language? Never heard him discuss the flower of youth?

    Yes. I advise him (Zelensky - ed.) not to send the flower of Ukrainian youth to die in the trenches… I think he should meet Putin in person. The reason why I proposed some kind of truce or peace a year ago was that I predicted almost exactly what would happen, namely: many people would die due to the lack of tangible changes on the front line and the loss of the flower of Ukrainian and Russian youth," he said

    • @albert180@feddit.de
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      32 years ago

      It seems to be a website which translates news from Non-English-News Outlets in English. The original article seems to be this

    • @fosforus@sopuli.xyz
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      2 years ago

      I listened to Lex Friedman’s podcast with Elon Musk as guest, an he used that expression several times. It seems like it’s more like a slavic expression. So I don’t know, perhaps he got it straight from Putin or perhaps he’s just deliberately using an expression that resonates more with Russians and Ukrainians.