Posted on 06/25/2023 9:23:53 AM PDT by Postel
Transcript -
Meet the Press - June 25, 2023
... Yes, although there are lots of jokes about Medvedev also drinking a lot more than he did a few years ago. So that could be a part of the explanation. You know, there are – there are so many potential people who want power inside the inner circle in the Kremlin that, you know, it's almost risky to name them. I mean, the heads of almost all the secret services, Patrushev.
There are former prime ministers – one who seems to be interested in taking power yet – taking power next. And it seems to me – I genuinely thought up until yesterday that what Prigozhin was doing was not so much trying to get rid of Putin, but jockeying to be his replacement, that he was presenting himself as a kind of alternative. And in fact, at some moments, he did that rather well. I mean, in some ways, he better embodies the values certainly of the Russian military than Putin does. You know, he doesn't go on about imperial nonsense in history. He doesn't talk about kind of fake, you know, Christianity that Putin sometimes does. He focuses on, you know, "We just want to win. We want money. We want better weapons." And he has a deep appeal. So the question now is whether he can ever get any of that back, which as I said, I now doubt.
(Pic from clip by Reuters, Jan 26, 2023.
sent by a friend in Seattle in Jan 2023)
” war there is not related to religion”Religion.
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True.
Sure. I remember when Jesus instructed His disciples to beat prisoners to death with sledgehammers...
Oh, wait...
I thought Chuck Todd was TOSSED OUT!
Me too.
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