Putin accuses the West of trying to "cancel" and "dismember" Russia

[highplainsdem]

Link to tweet

[qazplm135]

1. Eh doesn't have to be all of Russia

Just Putin will suffice.

[CrackityJones75]

2. Yes.

That is all.

[BlueIdaho]

3. You are correct sir.

We will now proceed to follow that course until we have the results you described.

[tanyev]

4. Says the man committing war crimes trying to cancel and dismember Ukraine.

[ck4829]

5. He's actively trying to garner sympathy from our country's worst of the worst

Who else uses “cancel” as a term of victimization other than the Crumbley family values bloc?

[ck4829]

37. Case in point...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216515455

[Wingus Dingus]

6. He spoke of people (oligarchs?) who make their money in Russia

but aren't really Russians at heart, but instead acting like westerners, and how Russia needs to undergo "purification"--sounds to me like pressure from oligarchs and cronies is starting to get to him, and now he's going to punish them or something. It's a scary speech.

[Ray Bruns]

15. Are we seeing the beginning of a "Night of the Long Knives"?

[Wingus Dingus]

18. Very possibly.

[herding cats]

7. Aww, it's nice of him to notice.

It's the little gestures of recognition like this which make all that hard work worthwhile!

[C_U_L8R]

8. It's that same Trump whine. Playing the f-n victim.

F off, Putin.

[samsingh]

9. Aren't russian soldiers killing Ukrainian citizens?

isn't putin doing this to Ukraine.

Also - not sure what the issue is. In the Kremlin way, there are no sanctions.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. He did it to himself

[dalton99a]

11. Says the founder of the Trump-Putin School of Projectionists

[MineralMan]

12. Nah, Vlad. We'll just emasculate YOU, instead.

How's that sound?

[Gore1FL]

13. He's quick on the uptake, isn't he?

I look forward to seeing who takes the Putin timeslot...

[cilla4progress]

14. Paper

tiger

[gratuitous]

16. The merest coincidence that Putin uses the exact same language of Republicans in the U.S.

Not to mention the exact same projection ploy: Accuse your adversary of doing what you're doing while denying that you're doing anything untoward.

[Sherman A1]

17. As the wise man once said,

"Most Wounds are self-inflicted."

[doc03]

19. If Vlad the Impaler would stay within his borders

we could be friends.

[Johnny2X2X]

20. I love that he's using the language of the GOP

He's saying "cancel" and "woke" over and over making it clear to everyone who he supports in the US. And maybe also making some of those people who also whine about woke and cancel culture see how idiotic it makes them look.

[lame54]

21. And?

[budkin]

22. CANCEL CULTURE!!!

RUN RAMPANT!!!

[eShirl]

23. You done fucked up, Vlad.

[Dirty Socialist]

24. "Cancel" you say?

Like Cancel Ukraine, asshole?

[iemanja]

25. I saw a video where he said he welcomed sanctions

because they would make Russia "stronger." He certainly has changed his tune.

[Caliman73]

26. Nobody is trying to cancel or dismember Russia.

The analogy you are looking for is...

When you have an aggressive, rabid dog, and that dog is attacking a child, you will try to hose, hit, kick, and maybe eventually use more severe methods of getting the attack to stop.

This is what is happening to you Putin.

[maxsolomon]

27. The Communists are the ones who made the Republics

out of the Russian Empire. Russia was dismembered by Russians.

I know it galls him, but there are distinct ethnicities that were made Republics by the Bolsheviks, and it's only natural that they'd want to escape Russian oppression, particularly that of Putin's Kakistocracy, and establish real independence. That there are many ethnic Russians in those nations just shows how Russia tried to erase their identities with Russian emigration (and relocation).

No one is trying to change the borders of Russia - it's Russia asserting that it's borders are drawn wrong.

[anarch]

29. yes, but he wants to go back to 1895 or something

[maxsolomon]

32. Yes, I think that's it exactly.

The borders under the Tsar are the correct borders of Russia.

Of course, that's impossible now, and I think he knows it. He won't get the already-in-NATO Baltics back, for one.

I don't think he actually wants the Central Asian nations - too Muslim.

The Caucasus, though? Maybe.

Belarus? Definitely.

[Wounded Bear]

28. Actually, we're gonna stand back and watch it fall apart...

[Crunchy Frog]

30. There's a very easy way to stop the sanctions Pootie.

Russia's not a real country anyway.

[Sogo]

31. Just one Russian, Vlad....

.

[tavernier]

33. Boy, can't get anything past him. n/t

[Emrys]

34. Was that an "OUCH"?

I thought I heard an "OUCH" just then.

[tinrobot]

35. Does his speechwriter also moonlight for a tiny-handed orange guy?

They're sounding more alike every day.

[Talitha]

36. "cancel" and "dismember"

If that's what it takes, hell yes!! After all, this whole thing was YOUR idea. Suck it up, buttercup.

[ck4829]

38. Kick