Posted on 08/17/2024 11:39:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin is feeling the stress from Russia's invasion of Ukraine - as he is seen wringing his hands in a meeting with his top officials after Volodymyr Zelenskyy's troops bit back and made a counter-incursion into the country.
The dictator, 71, was in a security council session on the crisis he faces due to Ukraine's dramatic invasion of the border areas of Kursk region.
His very public hand-wringing and fidgeting came as he was told earlier this week about how Russia had lost territory to Kyiv troops and - at the time - more than two dozen settlements, a figure far higher now.
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As he was told the news, Putin was seen with a solemn expression on his face, fidgeting with a pen and absent-mindedly rubbing his wrists. He occasionally appeared to grimace as he was told the worst information.
Such non-verbal gestures are seen by experts as reflecting anxiety, stress, or indecision.
They may show the dictator is facing an internal conflict and a lack of confidence, or feels fear, or insecurity. He may be seeking to calm himself in an act of self-soothing.
Putin is more often seen strongly gripping a table with one hand, which could also be a reflection of tension and anxiety. As such, the hand-wringing is unusual for the Russian leader.
During the meeting Putin showed some strange facial movements, at several points appearing to bite his lip, appearing exasperated at what he was being told by his officials.
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>>>>Btw, I have more muscles than that wet noodle and I’m a woman.<<<<<
Oh, that made me laugh, ANKE, especially the “wet noodle” part.
You’re a two year old.
The pro Russians post straight up anti American comments by a factor of 100 to 1.
I’ve never seen a pro Uke post anti American.
>>>>You’re a two year old.
The pro Russians post straight up anti American comments by a factor of 100 to 1.
I’ve never seen a pro Uke post anti American.<<<<
The pro UKE position is in an of itself an anti American position.
Exactly and I knew that is your lunacy.
You exaggerate so much and convince yourself that anyone who would support Ukraine is evil in all ways.
Our you’re just a liar.
I prefer to think you’re all out nuts.
Marcus won't need his Viagra after seeing this.
So, you define being anti-American to one being critical of the Biden regime and Deep State?
I define anti American as people who state the United States should be militarily defeated,
who blame the United States as a military aggressor through history,
who attempt to demoralize us to abandon all allies,
accuse us of being the world’s bully,
who encourage Germany and other allies to leave NATO and join Russia,
who claim we are using the rest of the world as cannon fodder and planning to start WW3,
Who hope for our cities to be destroyed in a nuclear attack....
Sound familiar?
>>>>I define anti American as people who state the United States should be militarily defeated,
who blame the United States as a military aggressor through history,
who attempt to demoralize us to abandon all allies,
accuse us of being the world’s bully,
who encourage Germany and other allies to leave NATO and join Russia,
who claim we are using the rest of the world as cannon fodder and planning to start WW3,
Who hope for our cities to be destroyed in a nuclear attack....
Sound familiar?<<<<
You’re out of your mind. I don’t believe any Conservative FReeper wants any of what you listed.
What part of the American taxpayer is broke and struggling to buy food, clothes, housing, gas, etc. for their families, don’t you understand?
We’ve already sent over $175 BILLION of UNACCOUNTED FOR MONEY to Ukraine, much more than any other country.
But it’s fine with you that we drain the life blood out of Americans in order to fund a proxy war, a money laundering machine and the wealthy lifestyles of globalist, warmongering oligarchs.
So, even if that is true (and it is and Donald Trump has said so), one is still anti-American.
It doesn't matter if all that is happening to put $$$ in Biden and George Soros' pockets.
You just can't grasp that fact that our political elite are corrupt, can you? Or that Deep State has been totally corrupt?
You will defend corrupt leftists and Deep State because they are American.
Well, I'm a Christian and I only will defend our actions in the rest of the world when they are to make life better people elsewhere. WE'RE NOT DOING THAT ANYMORE.
You don't seem to give a damn that it was our meddling in Ukraine that setoff a civil war that lead to the present war. Or that we left both Iraq and Afghanistan in worse shape than before we went to war there. Or that we helped fund terrorists that became ISIS that slaughtered Christians in the middle east.
Our foreign policy has been a disaster since at least the second Iraq war.
Great reply. I couldn’t agree more.
bullcrap. I’ve read that and more 1000 times from the pro Russians here.
And funny, they deny it every time they’re called out.
You deny it and spew more of it.
Are you by any chance producing the Kamala Harris commercials?
“I never said America is rotten;
But America is rotten”
>>>>bullcrap. I’ve read that and more 1000 times from the pro Russians here.
And funny, they deny it every time they’re called out.<<<<
More than 1000 times?
Then it should be easy for you to provide just 10 examples.
I bet you can’t.
Harris is on YOUR side, Williams, just like the rest of the Democrats.
Surely, a man like you who's up on current events knows that.
In Russia the dictator throws you out a window.
In the U.S. they announce you jumped out of a window at Bethesda Naval Hospital and name an aircraft carrier after you.
no foreign mercenaries except in Putin's army
All but 2000 people in the villages in question were evacuated. That may be what the Ukrainians call victory and ‘control’, it’s just there’s no one left to control there.
So the map you post isn’t really accurate, at all. The majority of the Ukrainian troops is very near or on the border, and then they send raiding parties in vehicles to see how far they can get, try to get closer to the nuclear power plant. But those are ambushed, so no, your map is not at all realistic.
The mercenaries, which sound like they are courtesy of NATO, were shooting civilians and their vehicles.
If true, then you had better start stocking up on potassium iodide tablets.
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