More like against a Pop Warner team.
Posted on 06/15/2021 6:49:08 AM PDT by lowbridge
Days ahead of his summit with President Biden in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States was being hypocritical in its criticism of the way his country handles internal dissent.
During an interview with NBC News, Putin said Russia was no worse than the United States in this regard, and used the government's handling of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as an example.
He even pointed to the arrests of hundreds of suspects in the U.S. Capitol riot and the death of one rioter as proof that the U.S. also targets its citizens for their political opinions, just as Russia is accused of stifling dissent. (The FBI has arrested people for the violence inflicted on the seat of government in Washington, rather than for their political opinions.)
"We have a saying: 'Don't be mad at the mirror if you are ugly,'" he said. "It has nothing to do with you personally. But if somebody blames us for something, what I say is, why don't you look at yourselves? You will see yourselves in the mirror, not us."
Putin showed flashes of defiance when he was asked whether it was a "coincidence" that several other political rivals had been assassinated in recent years.
"We don't have this kind of habit, of assassinating anybody," Putin said when he was asked whether he ordered Navalny killed. (NBC News)
He then countered by asking whether the U.S. was guilty of assassinating Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot.
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Kleptocrat is a description that perfectly fits the entire Biden Family, as well.
Who would’ve thought the USA would turn into the former USSR. That the former USSR would now evolve into what the USA used to be.
Let’s hope so...
Putin versus Biden would be like watching Alabama play football against a high school team.
They make sure the truth is something we can NOT see.
That makes them NOTSEEs...
The Russians, Norks, and Chinese are buddies, not opponents.
Putin knows how to twist it.
I’d swap Biden for Putin and throw a handful of senators in on the deal.
Only a handful. Why not at least 50 of them.
It is sickening, that Putin tells us what happened on that day and not a single congressit has the courage to tell Americans what Putin just told the world.
Ditto.
We share two common rivals: China and Islamic extremists.
And for the same reason.
We have successfully been allies in the past against the existential threat of Hitler and fascism.
Expansionist China and expansionist islam are no less a threat today. If you think politics makes strange bedfellows, wait until you see what cornered rats fighting together for raw survival does!
I wish I could remember the movie, but I think it was a Cold War drama from the late 1960’s or 1970’s. An American operative is discussing the rivalry between America and the USSR with a Russian operative, and the Russian operative shrugs and says something like, “It doesn’t make any difference to me. Every day your country is becoming more like Russia, and Russia is becoming more like America. Pretty soon, no one will be able to tell them apart.”
More like against a Pop Warner team.
China already b$*!h slapped US diplomats during a meeting in Alaska. It was their response to a lecture on democracy and human rights.
Why the Russia perpetual hatred? Better is mutual trade to the benefit of both, sans the stupid piling on of sanctions.
The new democratic conservative Russia has a lot in common with what we used to be before we went 100% woke. We should be trying to improve our relationship as Putin is.
Other countries leaders are seeing all this and they know what’s happening. Putin may ask biden about the election. Hey biden how’s the audit going in Arizona.
Just exactly did what Putin klepto?
Lol, I don't think you know what "democratic" means.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/05/vladimir-putin-passes-law-that-may-keep-him-in-office-until-2036
“And that the former USSR would now evolve into what the USA used to be.”
I wouldn’t go that far ... I understand your point, but Russia is a long ways away from what the USA used to be.
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