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Posted on 09/28/2015 3:38:05 PM PDT by traumer
Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin's relationship has always been, shall we say, fraught, but on Monday they shared a toast at the United Nations that looks to have been, even by their high standards, pretty weird.
There's so much to take in here. The nuclear powers side-eye. Putin's almost triumphalist smirk; Obama's undisguised loathing (there's an unmistakable "let's get this over with" look on his face) of the man with whom he's touching glasses. The discrepancy in size between the two men — look at how much farther Obama's arm reached than Putin's — adds another layer to it all. But their eyes sure are locked.
I thought Mashable's global news editor, Louise Roug, put it best when she wrote, "They clearly see side-eye to side-eye on things."
This was a scripted event, but there was still plenty of reason for awkwardness. President Obama's speech to the United Nations General Assembly that morning opened with an extended subtweet of Russian President Vladimir Putin, lamenting for example that "some major powers assert themselves in ways that contravene international law" (gee, I wonder which major powers). From there, Obama transitioned from implicit criticism of Putin to explicit, going point by point on Russia's misdeeds in Ukraine.
Putin returned the favor, giving a lengthy UN address of his own on Monday — his first since 2005 — blaming the United States for the wars in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine.
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Obama always has his booze close at hand.
0bama just wet himself. ;)
No. With what is it fraught?
Don’t trust either one of them
Putin is comfortable and smiling.
Obama is drawing back and is very tense.
BO: I know you know that I am a weak, petulant little child; and I don't like it.
Among other things.
Putin owns him, and they both know it.
Because Putin is physically dominant. He could crush Obama like a bug.
The man and the .........punk?
LOL!
Lol!
He’s ‘puckering’.
looks like he is drinking pink champagne
Barry is leaning away, like he’d getting ready to cut and run.
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