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Rhiannon12866

(205,842 posts)
Fri Mar 19, 2021, 10:15 PM Mar 2021

The Daily Social Distancing Show: Biden Spars with Putin & The Mexican Border Crisis Worsens



President Biden threatens Vladimir Putin for interfering in the 2020 election and grapples with large numbers of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.


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The Daily Social Distancing Show: Biden Spars with Putin & The Mexican Border Crisis Worsens (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Mar 2021 OP
POS Putin is in need of distraction and baiting Biden. StClone Mar 2021 #1
Now that would be increased enabling of Putin and his "followers" Rhiannon12866 Mar 2021 #2
Know what I secretly wish? StClone Mar 2021 #3
They have been demonstrating, but there's a steep price to pay Rhiannon12866 Mar 2021 #4

StClone

(11,686 posts)
1. POS Putin is in need of distraction and baiting Biden.
Fri Mar 19, 2021, 10:33 PM
Mar 2021

Roosky media priming for Putty to debate Biden. FOX with armchair Ultimate Fight promoter Matt Gaetz is imaging and cheering for the commie in a Putin/Biden octagon death match.

Ala Seuss...Oh the places distractions will go!

Rhiannon12866

(205,842 posts)
2. Now that would be increased enabling of Putin and his "followers"
Fri Mar 19, 2021, 10:40 PM
Mar 2021

We're totally done with that. He needs to be held to account for his crimes, that's it. And yes, it's another pointless distraction.

StClone

(11,686 posts)
3. Know what I secretly wish?
Fri Mar 19, 2021, 11:04 PM
Mar 2021

Vlad would have a security "mess up" and a couple of 1000 angry Russian citizens, knowing how he screwed them over, would take matters into their own hands. Live by the sword...

Rhiannon12866

(205,842 posts)
4. They have been demonstrating, but there's a steep price to pay
Sat Mar 20, 2021, 12:39 AM
Mar 2021

I feel for Russian citizens, since I visited the USSR back in the late '80s with my grandmother and her peace group and hope for change was very real then - under Gorbachev. He was instituting his policies of Glasnost (increased openness and transparency in government) and Perestroika (restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system) and the future looked bright for change. The people we met were not fans of Reagan since the Russian hardliners pushed back against his refusal to compromise. They were bigger fans of Jimmy Carter who had greater diplomatic skills and championed human rights. But now they have Putin, ex-KGB, who has taken them back to the worst days of the USSR and the oppression of the past.

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