Posted on 07/31/2022 6:41:28 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
“The next guy could be even worse.”
That’s what concerns me. Similar situation in North Korea.
“The CIA director just a week ago said Putin was healthy, too healthy.”
Putin may or may not be healthy, but since when does anyone on FR take CIA pronouncements as fact?
Putin's the enemy of 'white liberal elite commies' in OUR country because he turned his back on them after the breakup of the old USSR. If we had had two brain cells to rub together after the fall of the USSR we would have welcomed Russians into the fold... like we did with Japan and Germany after World War II.
It is said that his right hand is his gun hand and not his musquito-swatting hand.
Nothing mysterious about it. At least, Putin is not hiding in some basement
She’s put on weight.
So if he is really fatally sick, I wonder if he sees his end coming what kind of splash he will make as his final act.
The continuing concern for Putin’s health shown by some on FR is truely touching.
Perhaps it merits a special thread so those interested can follow, day-by-day or even hour-by-hour.
One of these days he’ll be right.
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Being very familiar with Russia, I can add he will NOT like his replacement. Vlad has shown much restraint, …..Russia’s Congress( Duma) and citizens are urging Vlad to eat Odessa, which I suspect he may do now that he has liberated the Donbass ( 98 percent).
Question for Biden’s Ukie war cheerleaders….do you not think Russia has their own misguided Neo- Cons? Yes they do, and they make our Neo Cons look like Girl Scouts….do realize, much like Trump, Vlad enjoys a whopping 98 percent approval rating….think about that, hard.
It Ain’t Got That Swing: Putin’s Unusual Walk Shaped by KGB
By Mindy Weisberger published December 14, 2015
A long-standing peculiarity in Russian president Vladimir Putin’s walk — with his right arm held almost immobile, while his left arm swings freely — has sparked speculation over the years about its origins, with rumors ranging from an in-utero stroke to a childhood bout with polio.
Now, a new study by a group of neurologists reaches a very different conclusion, pinning the source of Putin’s gait on the training he received while he was in the Soviet Union’s KGB, the nation’s national security agency.
In the study, published online today (Dec. 14) in the journal The BMJ, the researchers discovered that several other prominent Russian officials displayed a similar gait, which they say could also be linked to KGB training intended to keep a man’s “gun arm” close to his holster, ready to draw a weapon at a moment’s notice. [Video: Is KGB Training To Blame for Putin’s Stiff Arm?]
When most of us walk, we naturally swing our arms at our sides in opposition to our legs’ movements — and we do it without even thinking about it. Scientists have questioned whether swinging our arms actually benefits the way we move, and some studies have concluded that arm swinging in runners helps to maintain balance and conserve energy.
But swinging only one arm is unusual, said Bastiaan R. Bloem, a co-author of the new study and professor of movement disorders neurology at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands. In fact, an immobile arm is one of the earliest known indicators of Parkinson’s disease, he said.
After a colleague sent Bloem an email about a YouTube video showing Putin’s stiff right arm, Bloem was intrigued enough to dig a little deeper, he told Live Science. He found a number of videos showing Putin at public events where he walked for long distances. The lack of arm movement had persisted across years.
“You could say, if it were one occasion, maybe he just had a painful shoulder or some other intermittent problem,” Bloem said. “But then we discovered this was a consistent finding stretching out over a period of multiple years.”
Bloem and a number of his colleagues practice a subdiscipline of neurology that identifies them as “movement disorder enthusiasts.” As the term suggests, analyzing how people walk is second nature to these specialists — at neurology conferences, they’re the ones evaluating how everyone else ambles across the room.
“Normal movements are complex, and then seeing how they go wrong, when there are defects in the brain, is a fascinating area,” Bloem said.
Footage of Putin’s walk intrigued Bloem and the study co-authors. But it didn’t take long for them to rule out Parkinson’s as a cause for Putin’s unusual gait. Parkinson’s is a progressive disease, and in footage separated by years, there was no evidence that the movement of Putin’s arm, or of any other part of his body, was getting progressively worse.
In fact, all evidence seemed to indicate that overall, Putin is in fine physical shape. The researchers evaluated footage of Putin performing a number of different activities, and pronounced his motor skills “excellent.”
It was then that Bloem discovered that Putin wasn’t the only Russian official walking this way.
Back in the USSR
The researchers observed similar walking patterns — a stiff, nearly immobile right arm accompanying otherwise normal movement — in four other prominent Russian officials: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev; former Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov; Sergei Ivanov, chief of the presidential administration of Russia; and Commander of the Western Military District Anatoly Sidarov.
Other footage and photographs that the scientists examined showed that the Russian officials were all right-handed and did not appear to suffer from any impairment of their right arms, except as exhibited while they were walking.
That, Bloem told Live Science, was when things became “really
peculiar.”
The odds of all five Russian officials suffering from Parkinson’s and exhibiting precisely the same symptoms that appeared on the same side of the body and at the same stage of degeneration were slim. Bloem and his colleagues knew there had to be another explanation, and they found it — not in medical literature, but in the pages of a KGB training manual.
“It literally says, when you’re walking, don’t move the right arm, keep it close to the holster and be ready to draw the gun,” Bloem described.
Putin and Ivanov both served in the KGB, where they would have doubtless been trained “by the book,” to restrict their right arm movements while walking. And although the other officials were not KGB, their military backgrounds could explain their adopting this particular gait.
For Medvedev, the only official with neither KGB nor military training, the study suggests that his reduced arm swing could be an example of “imitating the boss,” a practice not uncommon in Russia, where officials frequently absorb mannerisms of their superiors, according to the researchers.
“Fascinating and complex”
The study authors found more examples of this weapon-ready walk in another unlikely location — Hollywood movies about rough-and-ready “wild west” gunfighters. Like the Russian officials, actors portraying gunslingers in old-time westerns displayed a similarly immobile right arm when they strode down Main Street at high noon.
Vlad seems healthier than Biden.
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Russia to, food prices in Russia are falling, energy prices decreasing, interest rates going DOWN , Ruble on a roll, RCB announces they are in deflation, not inflation, there are not many shortages ( compared to the West) , people are enjoying the summer... Vlad cares about his citizens, ( Much like Trump- powerful leaders), imagine that!
People in the West finally need to open their eyes to see what kind of politicians they have elected into their governments and start thinking. They have already started protests in Germany, and a many minor NATO nations. Not looking good for the Ukie war cheerleaders.
Which begs the question, why is the West so intent on committing suicide, both morally and economically?
Maybe so, but the West’s misplaced trust in Himars winning the war isn’t going to happen, only increase casualties. That said, Lavrov stated Russia will have to take more territory to increase the buffer zone….and Vlad says Checkmate again…..time to say bye bye to Odessa?
Much like the Trump derangement syndrome, the western MSM is again guilty of promoting the Russian derangement syndrome. The troubling fact is the Ukie war cheerleaders forget Vindman, and the Ukies past agenda against Trump.
Carry on war cheerleaders, reality hits hard, much like Biden’s Covid vax hoax, an awakening is near.
Much like the Trump derangement syndrome, the western MSM is again guilty of promoting the Russian derangement syndrome. The troubling fact is the Ukie war cheerleaders forget Vindman, and the Ukies past agenda against Trump.
Carry on war cheerleaders, reality hits hard, much like Biden’s Covid vax hoax, an awakening is near.
Mercouris commentary with the facts, the latest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-iOq14Wl0
Be sure to listen to all of the his daily updates…..much different than what western MSM is spinning. Don’t get sucked in by western media….hyper inflation is upon the Ukies, no matter how much the West aids them…monitor the exchange rates…
Like this ‘boom’?
‘Zelensky’s elite battalion destroyed – Russia’
https://www.rt.com/russia/559903-konashenkov-update-battallion-destroyed/
The people we’ve got in Washington are light weights. They would not even get past the primary stage if they’d run 50 years ago.
You only have to have half a brain to figure that out.
VERY INTERESTING! It is starting to make more sense. I vividly remember the Trump leak of Zelensky's conversation and the traitor Vindman. They put on quite the show with the hearings.
I was never under the illusion that the whole thing was not a setup. Only now (with your comment) it makes even more sense that the deep state/dems, along with Zelensky, were an integral part of the whole attempt to further damage Trump.
Thanks.
It takes less than half a brain, even yours, to know that the CIA has a multi-decade history of lying to the American public when it suits its perceived interests.
https://www.stonecoldtruth.com/the-cias-legacy-of-lies/
The CIA may or may not know the truth about Putin’s health and, if it does, it may or may not be lying about it. But everyone, especially those of us on FR, should take any CIA pronouncement on any issue with a high degree of skepticism.
You’re a MORON if you don’t understand the CIA has every incentive to lie about Putin having healthy problem. It has NO incentive to claim he’s healthy if he’s not. Got it? Or are you stupid?
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