But we do know that he is fluent in English, to the point that he either didn't understand RUSSIAN OR UKRAINIAN or he forgot how to speak the language......LOL!
None of that proves he’s some sort of intelligence official.
I never said it did.........
None of that even proves he doesn’t speak Russian or Ukrainian, since he might have simply want to be dismissive altogether.
Yea, right......How do you know that the RUSSIAN OR UKRANIAN speaking reporter wasn't merely saying "your fly is open and your pecker is hanging out"........
And using your logic, if the fatigue dressed gentleman truly wanted to be dismissive, as you say, then there is no reason he wouldn't have responded in the language being spoken to him so that he would have gotten his message across...It's pretty obvious to even the most stupid around here that he doesn't speak either RUSSIAN OR UKRAINIAN..........
CIA? Don't know
American? Don't know
Canadian? Don't know
Russian speaking? NOPE!
Ukranian speaking? NOPE!
So the ball is in your court Vladimir, tell us why a RUSSIAN OR UKRANIAN speaking soldier or EXPAT would respond to a reporter speaking RUSSIAN OR UKRANIAN in PERFECT ENGLISH?
Sometimes children of immigrants or even immigrants themselves lose their native language. For example Tennessee Titans player Michael (Mihkel) Roos moved to the USA from Estonia in his early teens, but he can no longer speak Estonian.
Why does it even matter?
“So the ball is in your court Vladimir, tell us why a RUSSIAN OR UKRANIAN speaking soldier or EXPAT would respond to a reporter speaking RUSSIAN OR UKRANIAN in PERFECT ENGLISH?”
Simple: to be dismissive. When in Italy, if I don’t want anyone to bother me on the street, I respond in German. When I run into street toughs in Germany - especially of the Turkish or Arabic kind - I always use Russian. They are leery of the Russians in Germany because they are all thought to be “connected”. They instantaneously leave you alone.
For the record, the reported was speaking Russian -as were all the people she spoke with (except the soldier in question).