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2022-03-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Putin 'is suffering 'roid rage from steroid treatment for cancer':

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Posted by Angaiper Ulavins1210 2022-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 So he and Brandon actually have more in common than we thought;

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-14 03:49|| 2022-03-14 03:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Ref #1: …..except Putin has the balls to actually do what he says and not guided by focus groups….unlike that hamster bidet.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-03-14 09:21|| 2022-03-14 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 And, if Bidet's obvious downward spiral is to be ignored, denied or discounted (by the lamestream media, anyway), what exactly makes any other politician's medical history news or otherwise relevant information right now?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-14 09:25|| 2022-03-14 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 stopped reading at "...Intelligence sources suggest..."

Posted by Mercutio 2022-03-14 11:27|| 2022-03-14 11:27|| Front Page Top

#5 69-year-old despot's 'bloated face and neck

No that was just some bad borscht and cheap vodka while giving chechens a pep talk the night before.

Seriously?

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-14 12:01|| 2022-03-14 12:01|| Front Page Top

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-14 12:29|| 2022-03-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Made it myself, SIS logo on curtain an' all. 🤠

Posted by Dron66046 2022-03-14 12:31|| 2022-03-14 12:31|| Front Page Top

#8 If his condition was really this obvious, wouldn't there already be actions underway to end this devastating course of action and the consequences on the Russian economy and way of life? Perhaps someone known as a genuine RB member has insight? The proliferation of new names always makes me suspect content, no offense newbie's but the troll-o-verse is getting out of hand of late.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-14 13:19|| 2022-03-14 13:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Hi NMBS - have you ever heard Putin speak at length? I doubt that anyone here has. Try it -- it will open your eyes.

Go here, to the 49 minute mark, where Ray McGovern introduces a 2015 clip of Putin speaking off the cuff for nearly 2 minutes, calmly, expertly, brilliantly explaining to ignorant foreign journalists why Tomahawk missiles placed in ABM sites (!) in Poland and elsewhere next to Russia might, just might, be considered threatening. Putin finally asks them, point blank, "How do I get throught to you people?" They're silent.

Now compare this rational, expert, strong individual with our last five presidents and draw your own conclusions about how he measures up vs Clinton, W, BHO, Trump and Biden for: 1) technical knowledge 2) candor 3) fluency and brevity 4) forthrightness 5) logic 6) command of evidence.

Frankly, he blows them out of the water on every dimension. (Bill Clinton certainly could have mastered the technical details but Putin owns him for all the other dimensions.)

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-14 14:45|| 2022-03-14 14:45|| Front Page Top

#10 I have to wonder just where all of this manufactured Putin abuse goes. Don't like him, fine. But somewhere along there needs to be a realization that he will be in office until 2035, minimally.

So what exactly is the productive end of the hysteria about steroids or what hypothetically scared him as a child? You want the Russians to stop their advance in the Ukraine? Well the man whose cooperation you need is the same man on the wrong end of of this puerile, middle school girl style public abuse.

Speaking of cooperation, I also have to wonder what the plan is for fertilizers. Equally, now that the 'adults' have returned to DC, what is their savvy strategy for when you go to the store and find that so far from paying way too much, there's nothing to buy at any price.

Posted by Cesare 2022-03-14 15:29|| 2022-03-14 15:29|| Front Page Top

#11 The thing I find most strange is that the intelligent brains here are in denial that the same propaganda machine and activism factories that targeted Trump are employed full bore in this Putin bashing and hero worship of Zelensky. And Russia's not even fighting America! Or even an American ally! It's a very Eurasian conflict.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-14 16:41|| 2022-03-14 16:41|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ The elite machine can turn on a dime. Witness COVID being sent to the back of the bus and Fauxi being disappeared. The machine had it in for the American people in its war against Trump and it has it in for the American people as it beats the drums for us to get involved in a war that's really none of our business.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-14 16:50|| 2022-03-14 16:50|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ Amen. Very well put

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-14 16:56|| 2022-03-14 16:56|| Front Page Top

#14 the same propaganda machine and activism factories that targeted Trump are employed full bore in this Putin bashing and hero worship of Zelensky.

We’re having fun with the chew toys — not quite the same thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-14 16:59|| 2022-03-14 16:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Do geldings require steroids to perform?

Posted by Woodrow 2022-03-14 19:23|| 2022-03-14 19:23|| Front Page Top

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