Vladimir Putin held a meeting with senior economic officers today, at one end of his 10-metre long table, where he referred to the West as an 'empire of lies'
Posted on 02/28/2022 11:11:04 AM PST by marcusmaximus
A smirking Vladimir Putin today ranted about the West's 'empire of lies' and banned Russians from sending their money abroad from midnight as worldwide sanctions caused the rouble to tumble and sparked a nationwide rush to withdraw cash.
The currency sank 30 per cent in early trading before easing back to stand 20 per cent down. Its collapsing value risks wiping out the savings of ordinary Russians, who have been seen flocking to ATMs all over the country to empty their accounts, including in Putin's home city of St Petersburg.
But as the Russian economy tanked, the Russian President took another swipe at Western sanctions today during an emergency meeting with economic officials at the Kremlin.
'I've invited you here to talk about issues to do with the economy,' he told officials with a smirk, adding: 'I mean of course the sanctions which the so-called Western community - the empire of lies - is trying to implement against our country.'
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Vladimir Putin held a meeting with senior economic officers today, at one end of his 10-metre long table, where he referred to the West as an 'empire of lies'
This whole thing has people doing backflips.
Liberals cheering on civilians with guns.
Conservatives cheering on a communist dictator.
We jumped the shark with 2020, we are now in clown world.
“the so-called Western community - the empire of lies”
I don’t like him, but he’s not wrong.
This mess didn’t erupt until after Biden talked to Putin. Whatever Puddin’ Head said really ticked him off. Adding sanctions didn’t help things.
Good Russian people are being hurt by the financial bullets being shot at Russia.
Biden gave Putin the green light to attack Russia. And Putin effed it up.
These photos are such great evidence for how no one can tell Putin the truth.
The lowliest intern in the propaganda ministry knows these giant table photos make Putin look weak and/or crazed, yet they keep putting them out.
This is a war between two factions of the left:
A nationalist neo-Stalinist state (Russia), and a proxy for transnational progressive corporatism (Ukraine).
Mr. KGB is all butt hurt over lies. “Thats called karma Vlad.”
The 'Good Old Days' in Russia.
“You don’t know how lucky you are boys...”
Makes it look like he’s got super Eboli and has to stay isolated from all other humans.
Spinal cancer.
The Western mass media has told too many lies for too long—about anything and everything.
Only the insanely gullible can believe anything they say any more.
“Good Russian people are being hurt by the financial bullets being shot at Russia.”
That is the only recourse, outside of going to war.
Russians are beginning to step up and protest. They need to take down Putin, like the Ukraine people are standing up to tanks with Molotov cocktails.
Somehow that photo of him sitting 30 feet or so from his top men scares me more than any other imagery from this war. I know he has top men working on the situation he got Russia into, but why sit so far from them? Or rather are they sitting so far from him?
He couldn’t have been so stupid as to not expect the west to react the way it has. Frankly, I think he’s mentally deranged, the proverbial madman who, from time to time, shows up on the world stage.
Gain of function TB jumping bat cancer.
I’ve only seen people saying there’s more than just what the media’s telling you going on. It’s strange that last week nobody believed anything the media says and now they just gobble it up.
Or the far simpler conclusion is that they agreed to all of this.
I think Putin gambled that Ukraine would fold quickly. Sounds like he didn’t have a “Plan B”.
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