Tag: Putin the Dictator
Trump: No, The OTHER N-Word!
“I listened to Putin constantly using the n-word. That’s the n-word.”
— Former President Donald Trump, on Fox Business, before clarifying he meant the “nuclear word.”
Russia on ‘Fast Track’ to ’80s-Style Soviet Economy
“He’s self-isolating his economy. Russia is now on the fast track to a 1980s-style Soviet living standard. It’s looking into an economic abyss, and that is the result of Putin’s choices and I can see from his reaction that’s where it’s headed.”
— Deputy national security advisor Daleep Singh, on 60 Minutes.
Oligarchs in Name Only
“If the people who are in charge in the EU believe that because of sanctions, I could approach Mr. Putin and tell him to stop the war, and it will work, then I’m afraid we’re all in big trouble. … The power distance between Mr Putin and anybody else is like the distance between the Earth and the cosmos. To say anything to Putin against the war, for anybody, would be kind of suicide.”
— Mikhail Fridman, the owner of Alpha Bank, and one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarch’s told Bloomberg that sanctions will not deter Vladimir Putin from continuing with his invasion of Ukraine, warning the West that it is failing to understand how power in Moscow works.
Lindsey’s Deadly Whimsy
Lindsey Graham has a message for the Russians:
Kill Vlad Putin and take back your nation!
It’s real tough talk
From a notorious chickenhawk,
Who works hard to be the “ass” in “assassination.”