The Absurd and Whimsical Humour of Vladimir "Dobby" Putin

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https://www.ninefornews.nl/bevestigd-do ... oodje-aap/
TRANSLATION: The media has been under the spell of 'mass graves' in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol for more than a week. Satellite images show possible mass grave at Mariupol, NOS reported last Thursday. A day later, it sounded more definite: 'Mass grave investigation Mariupol race against time'. Once again, the all-seeing eye of satellite embarrasses Putin, the AD headlined this week. Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett took a closer look and discovered that the mass graves do not exist at all. It's a hoax. She was ignored. Now that a CNN reporter has also visited the site of the 'mass graves', the media can no longer ignore it.
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Baghdad Bob Lavrov getting more and more absurd; when an Italian journalist questioned whether it made sense to accuse the Jewish Zelensky of nazism, Lavrov insisted that Hitler also was Jewish, and that in fact most hardcare antisemites tend to be Jewish… :crazy:

Not surprisingly, a lot of people took offense.

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^ Yep, "The first casualty when war comes is truth".
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Lol according to Lavrov, Canada is training neo-Nazis to send to Ukraine. Yep, it's the evil world against Russia.
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5thhorseman wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 6:06 pm Lol according to Lavrov, Canada is training neo-Nazis to send to Ukraine. Yep, it's the evil world against Russia.
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Seriously, Canada, you should stop training nazis for warfare. It’s not nice. :|
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Per wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 10:29 pm
5thhorseman wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 6:06 pm Lol according to Lavrov, Canada is training neo-Nazis to send to Ukraine. Yep, it's the evil world against Russia.
:shock:

Seriously, Canada, you should stop training nazis for warfare. It’s not nice. :|
Nah, our nazis are too busy fighting climate change, covering up government scandals, freezing bank accounts of protesters against their policies, envoking the emergency measures act for no legitimate reason, trying to take guns away from law abiding citizens, and other such bullshit activities, but most of all virtue signalling. :roll: ;) :drink: :look:
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Per wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 12:46 pm Baghdad Bob Lavrov getting more and more absurd; when an Italian journalist questioned whether it made sense to accuse the Jewish Zelensky of nazism, Lavrov insisted that Hitler also was Jewish, and that in fact most hardcare antisemites tend to be Jewish… :crazy:

Not surprisingly, a lot of people took offense.

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5thhorseman wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 6:06 pm Lol according to Lavrov, Canada is training neo-Nazis to send to Ukraine. Yep, it's the evil world against Russia.
Considering the language used by both Trudeau and Freeland regarding unvaccinated individuals earlier this year I'd say that anyone being trained by the federal government could be tarred with a neo-Nazi brush right now. :lol:
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BCExpat wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 12:14 am
Per wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 10:29 pm
5thhorseman wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 6:06 pm Lol according to Lavrov, Canada is training neo-Nazis to send to Ukraine. Yep, it's the evil world against Russia.
:shock:

Seriously, Canada, you should stop training nazis for warfare. It’s not nice. :|
Nah, our nazis are too busy fighting climate change, covering up government scandals, freezing bank accounts of protesters against their policies, envoking the emergency measures act for no legitimate reason, trying to take guns away from law abiding citizens, and other such bullshit activities, but most of all virtue signalling. :roll: ;) :drink: :look:
You also forgot they are trying to reform the Canadian Armed Forces into a secular theocracy.
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BCExpat wrote: Tue May 03, 2022 12:14 am
Per wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 10:29 pm
5thhorseman wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 6:06 pm Lol according to Lavrov, Canada is training neo-Nazis to send to Ukraine. Yep, it's the evil world against Russia.
:shock:

Seriously, Canada, you should stop training nazis for warfare. It’s not nice. :|
Nah, our nazis are too busy fighting climate change, covering up government scandals, freezing bank accounts of protesters against their policies, envoking the emergency measures act for no legitimate reason, trying to take guns away from law abiding citizens, and other such bullshit activities, but most of all virtue signalling. :roll: ;) :drink: :look:
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5thhorseman wrote: Mon May 02, 2022 6:06 pm Lol according to Lavrov, Canada is training neo-Nazis to send to Ukraine. Yep, it's the evil world against Russia.
For christ sake Canadians are conveners not trainers.
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I think we should have a meeting.

What will we talk about?

Well, nothing, but at least we will have had a meeting.
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donlever wrote: Wed May 04, 2022 6:31 am I think we should have a meeting.

What will we talk about?

Well, nothing, but at least we will have had a meeting.
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Finland’s president and PM both announced today that they favour Nato membership for Finland. The formal decision will probably be taken next week.

Meanwhile, a Swedish parliamentary committe will announce its findings on the Nato membership question tomorrow. The Social Democrats, who are governing, will have a leadership meeting on Sunday, in which they are expected to abandon their long standing neutrality stance, and on Monday we will have a parliamentary debate on whether to join Nato or not. If the Social democrats switch foot, as expected, all major parties will be in favour of membership. If so, Sweden and Finland will probably nointly apply for membership. It makes sense as we have very close military cooperation, and it could be hampered if one country joins and the other doesn’t.

Putin is very upset, he considers Finland’s announcement a hostile move and says it requires a proportional response. He has made similar threats toward Sweden. But he needs to look himself in the mirror.

Before Russia’s unprovoked illegal attack on their neighbour Ukraine, only 20% of the population in either of Finland and Sweden favoured Nato membership. A vast majority preferred neutrality. It is Russia’s aggression that has forced us to reevaluate this stance. If he didn’t want us to join Nato he should just have respected the sovereignty of his neighbours. As one pro-Nato politician said to the leader of the Left Party, the only party not in favour of joining: ”there’s a madman standing at the entrance of the house with a can of petrol and a lighter, and you question whether we need home insurance”.

There is some speculation what may happen after Sweden and Finland apply to join and before their membership has been confirmed. Most likely their application will be accepted right away, within weeks, as both countries clearly fulfill and even excede the requirements. But then every member country has to confirm it, usually by a parliamentary vote, and that process can drag on for months. Last week Boris Johnson dropped by and signed bilateral military cooperation treaties with both Finland and Sweden, stating that in case of an attack, Britain will provide military assistance. And we already have similar agreements with Norway and Denmark.
Not to mention that the EU has a clause that says all member states must assist a member state that is being attacked. Thus the agreement with Britain is mainly just replacing the agreement we had with them before Brexit.
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Was at a conference this week where we had pulled together pretty much everyone from all nine regional offices. Spoke to a colleague that hails from Mariupol. He has been through hell for two months trying to get his parents out. Their apartment had been destroyed in the bombing and they were hiding out in a bomb shelter, but did not want to leave. His dad had been wounded from shrapnel and his mother had fractured an arm. Eventually he managed to get hold of an old friend from school who had found them and driven them across the border to Russia. They then had to sneak through Russia, afraid of being arrested and interned in some camp, having their passports stolen, but pretty much everyone in Mariupol is Russian speaking, so they could probably pass as Russians. Anyway, they drove north, snuck across the Latvian border and my colleague could pick them up in Riga and they are now staying at his place. :thumbs:

There is hardly any paperwork as the EU has passed legislation allowing all Ukranians a temporary one year permit of residence, that can be extended. This temporary permit includes work permit and access to halthcare, so hopefully they should be fine.
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