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Russia pulls out of fishing deal and tells Britons to 'lose weight'
Sky News ^ | 22 Feb 24 | Sky News

Posted on 03/04/2024 7:50:22 PM PST by delta7

Russia's parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said: "The British need to study some proverbs - 'Russians harness the horse slowly, but ride it fast'."

He told politicians that "the unscrupulous British" had eaten Russian fish for 68 years - declaring: "Now let them lose weight, get smarter."

On Wednesday, the UK imposed sanctions on six people in charge of the Arctic penal colony where Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin's fiercest critic, died last week.

Mr Volodin said withdrawal from the fishing deal was in direct response to these sanctions - as British vessels caught 556,000 tonnes of cod and haddock in Russian waters last year alone.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assassination; navalnymurder; novachok; schnitzelmaximus; touchy; war
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To: Reverend Wright
"Because the geriatric “leadership” of the West is stuck in the same 1980s Cold War time warp as many Freepers. Where the West was top dog and the east Bloc was struggling economically."

There are a few. Give them something like a war named "Operation Eagle Boner" and they lose their fricken minds.

21 posted on 03/04/2024 8:53:05 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: House Atreides

You know, sooner or later China is gonna be fishing there instead of the British.


22 posted on 03/04/2024 8:56:02 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: delta7

Russia Losing The Economic Battle
Half of Russia’s welfare fund is now gone!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wzW2hgNpZuI?feature=share


23 posted on 03/04/2024 9:03:17 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
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To: Alter Kaker

99.9% of humans who ever lived did so without indoor plumbing. Billions still do. Meanwhile in the USA, people complain about the price of a Big Mac combo and are fascinated with whomever Taylor Swift is dating.


24 posted on 03/04/2024 9:06:14 PM PST by MTBobcat (The “rank-and-file” are as corrupted as their leadership.)
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To: Alter Kaker
One in four Russian households lacks indoor plumbing.

Four of four San Francisco street residents use the street as their toilet.

25 posted on 03/04/2024 9:23:18 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: MTBobcat
99.9% of humans who ever lived did so without indoor plumbing. Billions still do. Meanwhile in the USA, people complain about the price of a Big Mac combo and are fascinated with whomever Taylor Swift is dating

I say we got the better deal, but if you would rather shit in an ice-encrusted outhouse in Siberia then be my guest.

26 posted on 03/04/2024 9:23:35 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: BobL

Nothing has “always been” Russian territory. Every inch of Russia has been another country at some point.


27 posted on 03/04/2024 9:24:50 PM PST by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: BobL
We're getting some mighty big talk from our homegrown neoconned Redlegs about what they're gonna do to The Russia and The Putin.

Nothing has “always been” Russian territory. Every inch of Russia has been another country at some point.

Hurr-Durr! Hurr-DURR!!

The red rubber clown noses on these guys looks real comfortable.

28 posted on 03/04/2024 9:53:48 PM PST by kiryandil
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To: fidelis

Well, they will always have ‘’bangers and mash’’.


29 posted on 03/04/2024 10:37:42 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: kiryandil
"Russia seems a little touchy about that whole Navalny murder

One of your own team [Kyrylo Budanov] said it was natural causes, hunka boy.

So, NOT a murder.

However, your team DID murder American citizen Gonzalo Lira."

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Exactly right. Ignoring the actual killing Gonzalo, and then whining about Navalny, who probably died from the vax, shows how stupid the whole Western narrative really is.

30 posted on 03/05/2024 12:11:09 AM PST by Neanderthal ("Knowledge is good" - Emil Faber)
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To: dragnet2

“Over in the U.S. we’re told to eat cereal for dinner to save money.”

In the UK, it’s refered to as
porage. A biscuit is a
cracker, a car hood is a
bonnet, the trunk is
a boot, and french fries are
chips.

I’m thinking the UK has
bitten the hand that’s
feeding them. Typical
leftist reaction.


31 posted on 03/05/2024 12:11:19 AM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Alter Kaker

Why act dumb here? You’re not fooling anyone.


32 posted on 03/05/2024 2:02:28 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: delta7

Simple fresh Cod and Haddock is already a luxury for the average British family. This will inevitably raise prices in the shops. But the politicians couldn’t care less.
“Let them eat cake”


33 posted on 03/05/2024 2:06:54 AM PST by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: MTBobcat

I don’t complain about the prices at McDonalds, and don’t know anything about Taylor Swift. But I do complain about the low-flow flush toilets. Does that make me a bad person?


34 posted on 03/05/2024 2:26:02 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: MayflowerMadam
But I do complain about the low-flow flush toilets. Does that make me a bad person?

I heard a rumor, so I can’t verify the truthfulness of it. I heard, when the Red Army invaded Germany in WW2, many Russian soldiers did not know what flush toilets were. They thought they were potato washers. Now, I could understand, the Russians might not have had a flush toilet, but you would think they would know what one is.

35 posted on 03/05/2024 2:51:46 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Mark17

“They thought they were potato washers.”

Maybe best to avoid Russian vodka.


36 posted on 03/05/2024 2:58:54 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Maybe best to avoid Russian vodka.

😆😀😝🤗🤮

37 posted on 03/05/2024 3:02:26 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: kiryandil; Neanderthal

Of course Navalny was murdered by Putin

Putin has a long history of whacking his political opponents

Only someone truly dumb and naive would believe the Russian lies & propaganda


38 posted on 03/05/2024 3:30:09 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian monsters out!!)
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To: canuck_conservative
Governments lie even when the truth is not that dangerous to them. It's in their DNA. Nalavny was likely killed in prison by the authorities but so were Gonzalo Lira and Jeffrey Epstein. Even many years ago, an arrested the police hated received the “third degree”. When he turned up dead or severely injured, police spokesmen said that he fell down the steps at the police station.
39 posted on 03/05/2024 3:39:32 AM PST by Wallace T. ( )
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To: kiryandil

While visiting an old British friend of mine, he took me to an excellent little fish and chips place. he said, like in the US, if you want a good hot dog don’t go to some chain restaurant - the local mom and pops are much higher quality.

He was right. It was some delicious fish.


40 posted on 03/05/2024 3:48:22 AM PST by Not_Who_U_Think (`-)
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