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To: SeekAndFind

That is SO ADORABLE!!! What a charming murdering thug!


2 posted on 07/23/2018 10:01:10 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: babble-on

RE: That is SO ADORABLE!!! What a charming murdering thug!

I think the camera spotted French Actor Gerard Depardieu and Actress Goldie Hawn in the audience.


5 posted on 07/23/2018 10:03:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: babble-on

He didn’t sing it solo....hid his voice behind a group of other men singing.

I vote No on his karaoke.


7 posted on 07/23/2018 10:08:42 AM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (We need a consent decree for the FBI like Obama was slapping on all those police agencies.)
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To: babble-on
This is very odd...It's 2010 and the all celebrities in the audience like Goldy Hann, Kirt Russel etc., were all applauding and laughing, having a good 'ol time!

It begs the question, how come Putin is now a blood enemy with left and all these celebrates?

Could it be because of Trump? ☺☺☺

9 posted on 07/23/2018 10:12:07 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: babble-on

It’s sure to go to “Number One with a Bullet” on the Russian Charts.


27 posted on 07/23/2018 10:47:58 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: babble-on
Putin is indeed a product of his times and KGB background. He is also, by all appearances, a fervent advocate and patriot for his own nation. Every country, including ours, has its cadre of trained patriotic thugs as there are times when they're needed. Knowing a bear is a bear is reason to be cautious and wary when you are in the woods, but not necessarily a reason to go into the forest to pick a fight with one.

I've visited a lot of countries bunches of times but only once to Russia. It was at the very end of the Soviet era, early in the same year as the abortive coup against Gorbachev and the official end of the USSR. Before going there I had a stock of all the mental images nearly forty years of life during the Cold War built up. Some of those were confirmed. The inefficiencies, poor quality of products and food, staggering drunks on the streets after dark, and the occasional remnant "true believing" Communist official (very few and far between by 1991). But I also found that the faces we saw on the sidewalks were strikingly the same as you'd see on an American street.

It was striking because when you're in Paris the people look French. In Manchester or Birmingham they look English, in Rome they look Italian, Frankfurt-German, Stockholm - Swedes, etc. I'm able to see a movie scene of just faces on a street and with ninety percent accuracy tell you what country it was filmed in. Not Russia, unless and until a Cyrillic sign or big fur hat appears.

Another thing that was striking was how friendly everyone behaved and hospitably we were treated. It was like both sides were exhausted prize fighters, glad the fifteen rounds were over, with a clear winner but both still standing and grateful to have survived the match. After a couple vodka toasts that feeling turned to giddiness. That's my memory of Russia. They are proud, passionate, enduring under centuries of suffering. Cursed with bad rulers who committed the worst oppression against Christianity since the Roman Emperor Vespasian, but ready to rebuild the churches and return en masse once it was lifted.

I don't see any reason at all to desire or seek a war with such people. Like Alexis de Tocqueville once observed, on many levels there aren't two peoples more unlikely to be similar yet in many ways so alike. Watch the faces in this video of a children's chorus in St. Petersburg singing their national anthem. No, only fools and crazy people will want to fight these people.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=A2KLfRtmNFZbxZkAiFpXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEyazFwdmEwBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjM5MTVfMQRzZWMDc2M-?p=youtube+russian+national+anthem&fr=mcafee#id=17&vid=273210c5bb80cdc5f721ed5bb3410d05&action=view

35 posted on 07/23/2018 1:13:15 PM PDT by katana
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