Vladimir Putin has expressed his dissatisfaction over Ukraine?s reluctance to engage in negotiations and condemned the Ukrainian side, saying that but for them, ?it would all have been over long ago?. The president of the aggressor state made the comments at a meeting with the heads of the municipalities of the constituent entities that make up the Russian Federation.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    Putin, and most of the Russian talking heads, are like that guy from the Iraq war. I can’t remember the name, Baghdad Bob or something like that? Just totally separated from reality.

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      Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (Arabic: محمد سعيد الصحاف; Muḥammad Saʿīd Al-Ṣaḥḥāf)[citation needed] is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 2001. He came to worldwide prominence around the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Minister of Information under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting as spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and Saddam’s government. He has also been nicknamed Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali (a play on “Chemical Ali”) for his notable and colorful television appearances as the Information Minister of Iraq

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf

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    Remind me, were these the peace negotiations at which Russia demonstrated its good faith efforts to end the war by poisoning the Ukrainian delegation?

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    “And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling westerners!

    • Putin, standing on a mountain of dead Russians