Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed his country’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday in a filmed segment of a session of the country’s security council.
I propose the renaming of the Molotov cocktail to the Putin cocktail.
Well, of course we believe you that everything is going to plan, Vlad.
Why would you lie to us and your own people?
I’m thinking someone should start pushing for the “Putin brewski” after that brewery starting filling beer bottles for the locals and slapping a “Vlad is a dickhead” labels on them.
This is worse than silence. Putin is not deviating from his decision to invade, and nobody can change his mind according to reports.
Vlad should ask Bush if he still has the banner…
Not surprisingly, this is what “going all in” looks like.
If he’s still claiming that Russia is winning his war, after a full week of fighting, that’s what losing sounds like. How nice that he’s remembering the bravery of those who are dying for his personal project.
To shamelessly crib from Mike Ginn,
My “the war is going exactly as planned” speech has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my speech.
I knew this was going to be big trouble for Putin the second Trump called Putin a genius, further stating he was very smart for getting a whole country for $2 worth of sanctions. Trump is the George Costanza of presidents. Wrong on almost everything.
“I want to say that I’m Dagestani, I’m a Chechen, Ingush, Tatar, Jewish.”
But he hasn’t done … bananas!
“All tasks set during the special operation in Ukraine are being successfully accomplished.”
“OK, which joker set ‘farmers stealing tanks with tractors’, ‘Ukrainians carjacking APCs’, and ‘a 40-mile-long turkey-shoot stuck in the mud’ as Special Operation tasks?!”
Petrograd Vlad.
I love this from Zelensky, directly piercing Putin’s “tough guy” image.
More sanctions coming down, including on that Putin’s chef guy. Thread for more details.
ETA: Some names.
Predates the war, but the US Attorney ties it in.
OT: And this just happened today.
So was the speech live or pre-recorded like last week?
Pre-recorded.
On the second night of the 2016 Republican National Convention.
Those particular tasks are being accomplished well ahead of schedule. Tremendous acceleration in those plans. We had not expected that to happen at all in the first several weeks.