Tag: Putin
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Toad Away
Well, Cossack hats off for the apparent chutzpah of our Russian chums. It was apparently straight faces all round in Moscow regarding that intrepid Ecuadorian Dart Frog, who apparently laboured 6,900 miles across the globe from the Chocó rainforest to Kharp in Russia, negotiated all that supermax security in the gulag and squirted some nefarious gunk into…
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The Latest Rendition
‘What can I say here? If this can be done to dictators, like that, then the [US] knows what they should do next.’ Yeah, not shell out any more dollars to your slush fund, you turd. The irony is of course that Trump has gone down to banana land just as Putin walked into the…
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Roman Knows
I’d almost forgotten about that old wag Roman Abrahamovich. Well, he’s back in the news, this time for not coughing up £2.5b of big, frozen on the grounds of his Russian citizenship. No wonder he’s not playing ball, and good luck to him. Duplicitous government shysters had forced a Chelsea sale and then lassoed the…
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Smelling of Ruses
I’m probably way off the pace with this Alaska conflab, but it looks like a reshuffling of the cards in a typical Trump deal. The lore of deal-making – whatever piffle gets pushed out will be lauded as ‘great’, and the two leaders will come up smelling of ruses. It’s a funny old world right…
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Dressed Down
Well, that was an interesting presser in the Oval Office. Of course, notwithstanding the annoyance that Zelensky clearly doesn’t want to bankroll his own war, the US man-babies hardly covered themselves in glory. Since the skirmish started, Zelensky has dressed down, wearing his combat fatigues wherever he has gone, though occasionally he has opted for…
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Bully Beef Curtains
Apparently, a guy called Navalny has died in a Russian prison. He might have choked on a Chicken McNugget while fooling about on his Playstation, for all we know. Meanwhile, at the time of writing, attacks on Gaza have killed at least 28,775 Palestinians and wounded 68,552 since October 7 2023. What with all this Eurocentric media…
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Drama!
News from Moscow suggests that the Wagner Group is attempting a coup. This has been denied, but Wagner undoubtedly revolutionised opera via his Gesamtkunstwerk, in which he looked to synthesise art forms (music, poetry, visual art, and drama). Drama was, surprisingly for a music buff, the dominant dimension. Isn’t it always? This ‘total work of…
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Bad Actors
On the first anniversary of the war in the Ukraine, it’s worth reflecting on how much this squabble has warped perceptions and skewered objectivity. While reporting on Putin’s rally, a reporter from Sky News categorically stated that the Donbas region was part of the Ukraine and not Russia, which although a valid opinion is hardly…
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Chicken Kiev
Another day, another Zelensky diktat to the West. And the line is again strikingly similar: demands for arms, a no-fly zone, ramped-up sanctions etc. The trite turd ultimately wants NATO to trigger World War III. How is it that this bloviating berk has bagged platforms to address overseas parliaments with this shameless shizzle? Well, that’s…
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Bream On
While no fan of the rubber bath toy at all, his ‘I have a bream’ speech was a masterclass in hooking the usual gang of wet, flaccid Euromelts and consigning them to the Tory keepnet. Comparing the Ukrainian resistance to the Brexiter push for freedom was a jolly jape that perfectly piqued all the posturing…
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