Yes! And Russia came up with a hurried lie that they were ‘towing’ it to safety and ‘weather conditions’ sank the ship. Good God, they are as inept at propaganda now, as they are at making war.
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Karma took her time but got it right in the end.
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I learned today that the literal, as opposed to idiomatic, translation is “Russian warship, go find a dick to suck.”
Aside from pointing out that the warship must have gone looking on the ocean floor, it really is such a more nuanced instruction, implying as it does the emasculation as well as infantile neediness of the target. Between that and the joke about Putin’s watch, I’m really digging the Ukrainian approach to language.
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Will Turkey allow them to transit another into the Black Sea?
Remember the Ukrainian oligarch that was recaptured the other day. He will always have potatoes.
A day after it was announced that Viktor Medvedchuk had been recaptured following an escape from house arrest, Ukraine said it had seized 154 assets from stalwart Putin ally. The laundry list of assets taken from the 67-year-old pro-Kremlin opposition politician and his family includes 30 land plots, 23 houses, 32 apartments, 26 cars, and one yacht, according to The Washington Post. One of Ukraine’s richest people, Medvedchuk was arrested and charged with treason by Ukrainian authorities but escaped after Russian forces pushed over the border. He was missing for 48 days. On Wednesday, Russian officials rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s proposal of a prisoner swap for Medvedchuk. The deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, warned Ukrainians to “lock the doors well at night to make sure they do not become the people who are going to be exchanged themselves.”
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FIFY
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The most ironic part about this is that russia, that massive world superpower, just lost a flagship to a country whose “Navy” consists of a handful of tiny patrol boats and aging platforms, and doesn’t have a single battle cruiser or anything cool to its name (lost the ones it had with the traitor in Sevastopol in 2014 surrendering everything without a shot fired).
But someone please explain to me why it’s all WWIII and we have to be terrified of him and can’t do anything to stop the genocide directly.
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The opera’s war’s not over until the fat lady autocrat sings leaves.
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Russian officials rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s proposal of a prisoner swap for Medvedchuk.
The moment when you realize you are not one of the cool kids anymore.
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There actually is a “public authority” defense available, where the defendant attempts to prove that he didn’t have criminal intent because he thought he was acting with the approval of the government. But that really doesn’t work when the guy you’re relying on as having authorized your conduct is an obviously malignant clown, 'cause really, that basically just proves that you already wanted to fuck up Congress’s shit.
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Because it doesn’t take much intelligence or forethought to push a button. That’s how easy it is to blow up the world. But I agree that we need to throw caution to the wind and confront Putin firmly, if that’s what you meant.
Shoelaces too, I’ll bet.
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Someone is pissed
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And that particular government was on its way out, having exhausted all legal challenges.
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He’ll be issued prison attire at processing. Everything he’s still wearing will go into a sealed item bag that will be returned to him when his sentence is up.
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"Eet vuz naught missill ztrike zat zunk it.
It vuz ourr eencompitunce!!!" - Russian Military spokesperson
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I missed the Putin watch joke.
Plz tell.
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They have only two more, and no.
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