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2022-02-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian President Vladimir Putin put his American colleagues in a deadlock after signing a decree

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Posted by badanov 2022-02-22 09:28|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 "The American elites did not foresee the development of events with the recognition of the independence of the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics by President Vladimir Putin."

Well I'm only Bavarian elite but I did foresee this.

Posted by European Conservative 2022-02-22 09:44|| 2022-02-22 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 You give them way too little credit for their brainpower and way too much for their moral fortitude.

The "elites" in the West have spent the last thirty years undermining the West's ability to produce products and energy for themselves and empowering China's industrial base and Russia's leverage via its energy resources and the resources it leverages from the landlocked countries of Central Asia. (Oh, and whatever Iran can do to disrupt supplies from the Middle East).

But hey, the elites sure whipped those truckers' asses, eh? Maybe Putin will be impressed by their ability to have the RCMP trample underhoof some First Nations senior citizen on a mobility scooter.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-02-22 10:11|| 2022-02-22 10:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Even more comical: all the western elites' predictions centered on Kyiv. Instead the Russians are just moving materiel into those pro-Russian disputed regions at the far eastern end of Ukraine, de facto autonomous regions that could not be further from Kyiv.

Whose autonomy and independence would have been upheld by a good-faith, even minimally competent US government, if we ever were to have one.

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-22 10:35|| 2022-02-22 10:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Biden: "I'm roaring off to oblivion".

Posted by crazyhorse 2022-02-22 14:42|| 2022-02-22 14:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Has anyone considered tik-tok getting a platoon of paratroopettes to dance to Uptown Funk, then have Lunch Vader introduce Admiral Tits on a Bull for a national conversation about how the worlds' militaries should Go Green?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-22 15:23|| 2022-02-22 15:23|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ That's classified...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 15:25|| 2022-02-22 15:25|| Front Page Top

#7 all the western elites' predictions centered on Kyiv

Because Frank Luntz focus group said, although nobody in the group could identify Ukraine's location on a map, slightly more than half of them had at least heard of Chicken Keiv. Slightly less than half guessed correctly that it's a main course, not a diplomatic gambit...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 15:28|| 2022-02-22 15:28|| Front Page Top

#8 General Mills: "Somebody say Chicken Kiev?!"

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-22 15:51|| 2022-02-22 15:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Chicken Cordon Bleu is great, but once you have had Turducken, there's no going back...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 16:14|| 2022-02-22 16:14|| Front Page Top

#10 True, no going back - but one can always go forward: Turduckchicquail.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-02-22 16:35|| 2022-02-22 16:35|| Front Page Top

#11 I want this

Moo Oink Duck Tucken

Posted by Beavis 2022-02-22 16:46|| 2022-02-22 16:46|| Front Page Top

#12 Fou du cochon is a turducken stuffed inside a whole deboned pig, the whole thing smoked. Beyond beyond...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-02-22 16:47|| 2022-02-22 16:47|| Front Page Top

#13 #11 is on to something, though...