See these hands Putin, very nice, very normal sized hands, these hands are going to fuck you, they'll pull your guts outs out and make borscht, very good borscht, many people tell me about my entrails borscht, best borscht they've ever had
I'd like to counterpoint this with footage of Ukrainians shooting down a Russian Lancet loitering munition with AKs and a fucking 12ga.
It's like he's trying to emulate Regan during the hostage crisis, without realizing that you can't really intimidate a nuclear power the way some believe Regan intimidated Iran, a new, unsteady regime in the middle of multiple existential conflicts.
To be entirely fair, Russia's relationship with its former empire is a bit different from that of other great European powers. France retains good relations with its former subjects and still pulls security for its former colonies in Africa. Spain considers Latin America it's "top foreign policy priority," and still is in good terms with them. The UK is back in good terms with India, is best buds with the US, Canada, and Australia, and still has partnerships with many of its African colonies.
France's positive relationship, which is still tinged by colonial memories, did not happen overnight. They had to change how they approached West Africa in order to retain influence. Spain lost its Latin American colonies in spectacular fashion, with military force. They rebuilt this influence by accepting the loss and changing tact.
No love lost between the people in the area filming that for the Russian's who just had that dropped on them. They actually seem gleeful. What the fuck Z bros. I was told these people wanted to be in Russia.
Yes, there is. Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya who ran for and likely won as President when he husband Sergei was arrested. She is in Lithuania with decent sized civil society or opposition movement operating from Lithuania. Now whether she'd take and hold power if Luka fell isn't clear, but her claim has some recent heft behind it. Now if Luka perishes from a sup of Putin's Reserve Special Green Tea, someone local Putin trusts might well succeed, but if Luka's cunningly led Soviet larp régime Ms Tsikhhanouskaya has a more than decent chance to be a President of Belarus who restores its presently repressed language, religion (in the sense that Catholic or Orthodox priests not supportive of Luka no longer have to endure FSB inspired lawfare) and culture.
Oh come on, signaling out @Feline Supremacist for a bad take is basically cheating.
If I was not banned in the Russia thread, I would have responded directly. I am ethically bound to signal a user I am shit talking about.
Not sure if you know this, but when you tag someone with @ it notifies them. So you're basically inviting Feline to come to this thread. I don't know if this was intentional, but I for one would rather the ziggers not bother us.
So far Russia:
Okay, I'm not gonna lie, that was pretty badass.
You know, in DS9 its mentioned Garak broke a suspect in the interrogation room just by staring at him. It would definitely be a power move by Trump to just stare at Putin and not say anything.
I hope he turns it into a fractal and covers his whole scalp with it.
Missel go up.
