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Putin Asks Reporter If US 'Assassinated' Ashli Babbitt
Townhall.com ^ | June 15, 2021 | Leah Barkoukis

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ashli; ashlibabbitt; assassination; babbitt; putin; russia
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To: Uncle Miltie

Kleptocrat is a description that perfectly fits the entire Biden Family, as well.


61 posted on 06/15/2021 7:48:59 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Responsibility2nd
The question of the day, week, month, YTD!"

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.

62 posted on 06/15/2021 7:50:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: livius

Let’s hope so...


63 posted on 06/15/2021 7:50:48 AM PDT by GOPJ (Rape isn't penis violence. Arson isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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To: Sacajaweau

Putin versus Biden would be like watching Alabama play football against a high school team.


64 posted on 06/15/2021 7:51:05 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Chinese communism will look different once the masks come off.)
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To: GOPJ
The thug arm of the democrat party (the press) works hard to make sure the whole truth is NEVER told...) Nice of Putin to give them a hard time about it...

They make sure the truth is something we can NOT see.

That makes them NOTSEEs...

65 posted on 06/15/2021 7:56:38 AM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: Grampa Dave

The Russians, Norks, and Chinese are buddies, not opponents.


66 posted on 06/15/2021 7:58:21 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: lowbridge

Putin knows how to twist it.


67 posted on 06/15/2021 8:00:04 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: bigbob

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.


68 posted on 06/15/2021 8:05:45 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“Respond only to polite and intelligent posters, who don’t insult you or us! Forget the others!”)
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To: woodbutcher1963
I have thought that some day the Russian and the American people would some day be allies.

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!

69 posted on 06/15/2021 8:10:41 AM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Who would’ve thought the USA would turn into the former USSR. And that the former USSR would now evolve into what the USA used to be.

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.”

70 posted on 06/15/2021 8:10:47 AM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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To: OrangeHoof
Putin versus Biden would be like watching Alabama play football against a high school team.

More like against a Pop Warner team.


71 posted on 06/15/2021 8:12:37 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden is a squinty-eyed turnip brain)
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To: No_Mas_Obama

China already b$*!h slapped US diplomats during a meeting in Alaska. It was their response to a lecture on democracy and human rights.


72 posted on 06/15/2021 8:16:29 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: pacificus
Leave Russia to their own devices, and just block them from any economic gains internationally....

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.

73 posted on 06/15/2021 8:19:21 AM PDT by duckln ( )
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To: lowbridge

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.


74 posted on 06/15/2021 8:20:26 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: Navy Patriot

Just exactly did what Putin klepto?


75 posted on 06/15/2021 8:25:21 AM PDT by duckln ( )
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To: duckln
The new democratic conservative Russia

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

76 posted on 06/15/2021 8:26:02 AM PDT by tlozo
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To: null and void

I was referring to this:

https://news.yahoo.com/biden-calls-putin-killer-vows-140500133.html


77 posted on 06/15/2021 8:27:37 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Lefties call anything they can use to subjugate other people "science.")
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To: lowbridge
(The FBI has arrested people for the violence inflicted on the seat of government in Washington, rather than for their political opinions.)

BULLSCHIFF!! The FBI has arrested HUNDREDS for simply parading and gathering in the Capitol!

That isn't violence, it shouldn't even be illegal!
78 posted on 06/15/2021 8:29:36 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: duckln
Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution we had a respectful relationship with Russia. Imperial Russia certainly did not share any of our governing principles. We were not reflectively hostile toward them. In fact during our Civil War we sheltered parts of the Russian fleet on the east & west coasts. It was of mutual benefit to both governments foreign policies at the time. They may never be our bosom buddies but there can be a non-hostile relationship. (Anyway countries don't have friends they have shared interests!) We can challenge them when they need to be challenged, ignore them when they need to be ignored and cooperate with them when it makes sense to do so. Saying what I think is obvious and realistic in no way makes me a Ruskie lover.
79 posted on 06/15/2021 8:32:08 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Responsibility2nd

“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.


80 posted on 06/15/2021 8:32:48 AM PDT by edh
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