Posted on 05/27/2023 7:05:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
As the world struggles to understand Vladimir Putin’s motivations in Ukraine, some critics have resorted to jibes about the Russian president’s height.
Britain’s Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has called him a “lunatic” with “small man syndrome”, while US Republican Senator Mitt Romney said he was a “small, evil, feral-eyed man”.
At an estimated 5ft 7in, Putin has been labelled as having “Napoleon complex”. But he is only half an inch shorter than the global mean height for adult men and - as The New European points out - is joined by a “new generation of short kings”.
Jeremy Clarkson suggested in The Times that the “real reason for the madness” apparently exhibited by Putin is simple: he is “not very tall”.
And “being not very tall seems to affect people”, Clarkson wrote. “Napoleon wasn’t very tall. Hitler wasn’t very tall. Mussolini wasn’t very tall… Their shortness eats into their very being and they become mad.”
Geography appears to be against Putin too. “The average height of Russian men is also 5ft 10in, which is presumably why Putin is so angry all the time,” Clarkson continued. “Because everyone he meets, all day and every day, is three inches taller than him.”
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Putin (aka ‘Smeagol’) must be having a serious existential crisis when he’s losing a war to someone he dismisses as a Jewish Nazi globohomo comedian.
Zelensky is the same height as Putin.
And Tom Cruise is the EXACT sane height.
Coincidence???????
NO
Ever see all 3 in the same room, at the same time?🤔
I didn’t know Putin said that really and the COVID shots are “safe and effective” too.
People here have made negative references to Zelensky being a homo comedian but the Jewish thing really trolling Anti-Semitism and falsely linking it to Putin.
accurate:
putin is a
“small, evil, feral-eyed man”.
That could explain Tom’s jumping up and down on couches.
Maybe Vlad and Volod should try it.
Oh my!!! He’s short …
The deep state and LGBTQ groomers are grasping at anything they can. Hahahahahaa.
How about the fact that he parts his hair on the right….. or is it on the left. Oh oh and he doesn’t move his arm when he walks.
All the stupid comments are going to fade away if that lunatic goes nuclear.
Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, Brussels, London …… all will be shorter than 5’7” if WW3 happens.
It will start with a really stupid trigger, like a Baltic or Serbian or Moldovan incident that will spiral out of control.
Then there’ll be a lot of finger pointing. The whole premise is stupid.
Russia has always felt inferior to Europe but not fully Asian either. That’s why they do what they do.
All three of them use camera angle tricks to appear taller.
Zelenskyy is shorter. Quit grasping at BS.
They're both 5'7.
Why does Zelensky look smaller than people who are allegedly the same height as him?
In his high heels maybe. But even so, people shrink as they age, and he is only 45 so he hasn’t reached the age where you start to shrink. But the whole issue of height is a ridiculous one to begin with. It’s nothing more than BS.
Maybe Russia’s motives were EXACTLY what they said they were. They saw a corrupt nation run by NeoNAZIs who were oppressing a Russian minority.
Wow - that’s the exact same rationale used by actual Nazis to annex the Sudetenland and then later invade the rest of Bohemia and Moravia.
So nazis were afraid 9f nazis?
As opposed to the looming doofus syndrome.
Winston Churchill was 5’6, Maggie Thatcher was 5’5”, Grant was 5’8, General Sheridan was 5’5”. Chesty Puller was 5’7”, Audie Murphy was 5’5”.
Biden 6’0, Obama 6’2”, Bush and Bernie 6’0, Romney 6’2”, Ryan 6’1”, Comey 6’8”, Lebron 6’9”.
Effing stupid thread
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