Well, the sanctions are in for Mr. P, and I’m just not sure at all that they’ll be a wake-up call for the Russian people. Evidently the populace, or at least 50% of it, doesn’t feel that sanctions are going to affect anyone at all. Just you wait. A restless (young) citizenry is not easy to control…(article is from 2012 but very affecting).
Mama says that it’s hard to help Mr. P. save face when he has two of them.
But touchy political situations have almost always benefitted from having the aggressive party be able to save his pride/face/reputation and so on.
It’s too bad that the USA doesn’t have an undersea/subterranean pipeline from our gas reserves to Ukraine, for example, so that Mr. P would not make a dent in Ukranian courage by shutting off the gas souce.
In my book, Mr. P. is a bully on the highest rung and someone, something is going to have to nudge the ladder a bit more to shake him loose.
With a saved face, of course. You know, when I “accidentally” fall off the bed or my chair (that is, when I lose my incredible kitty-coordination for some ungodly reason once in a blue moon), I try to save face, too—licking my little body, staring up at something on the ceiling or just walking away, tail in the air, appearing to be totally in control. Well, I wasn’t.
Maybe I could teach him to lick his parts, looking nonchalant…that might work.
Anyone who poses with tigers for ego enlargement, rides little horses that he’s at least 4 times too heavy and shoots animals for fun isn’t going to care much about sanctions (says the ape) ‘cos he’s got that great big pipeline and he can easily hold Europe to ransom with the shut valve
He’s a rotter Loulou
Hiss, spit, whap to him
Luff Mungo
My neighbour just sent me a good article on that baaaaad guy.
Here it is
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/07/the-end-of-vladimir-putin-109604.html