Posted on 11/11/2023 4:37:24 PM PST by marcusmaximus
New rumours swirled today over Vladimir Putin’s health as a speech by his top security aide emerged referring to the Russian dictator entirely in the past tense.
Nikolai Patrushev – a former head of the FSB security service and seen as Moscow’s most sinister spymaster – dressed in black and gave a eulogy to the autocrat which sounded more like an obituary.
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His words were compared to those of his predecessor Lavrentiy Beria – KGB chief – after the death of Stalin in 1953.
Patrushev, virulently anti-Western secretary of the Russian Security Council and seen by some as the man now in unofficial control of the Kremlin, said in a video which emerged today but was delivered on Saturday: ‘Tired of the dashing 1990s, [Russian] society was waiting for the solution of social and economic problems and strengthening of national security.
’It required a leader who could put the welfare of the population at the top of the agenda, display the highest human and organisational qualities, will and dedication.
‘Such a leader was Putin, who first served as Prime Minister, then was elected President and, in accordance with the Constitution, became Chairman of the Russian Security Council.
‘He knew in detail the state of affairs in the country, had a clear programme of action, saw the goal, imagined the tasks that should be solved to achieve it, the sequence of steps, as well as the necessary forces, means and resources.
’At the same time he realised the critical importance of an evolutionary approach as opposed to revolutionary leaps, always weakening the Russian state.
’[He] believed in people and the reliability of their support and backing, realised and consciously assumed all responsibility for the salvation of the Fatherland.’
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Whoops.
I sense a multi-story stairwell or window in his future.
Awe come on with this Putin is near death stuff. Gets boring as all get out.
No one can predict these things.
Some of the network TV anchormen implied sort of condescendingly at the John F. Kennedy inaugural that somehow the old white haired Cardinal Cushing made it in life long enough to barely get to witness the first Catholic US President.
Later: JFK was dead. Robert F. Kennedy was dead. Cushing was still alive. Also, Fidel Castro August 13,1926 – November 25, 2016) was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008.
Patrushev is running the show now.
Castro was supposed to be dying for years and years too, and he managed to last until he was 90.
I’ll wait until I see an article from the Babylon Bee to get confirmatiin!
Do you get overtime on the weekends?
Where’s Putin?
He’s just storing up nuts for the winter.
Putin’s ‘lover’ – Alina Kabaeva, 40 – has vanished and not been seen in public since the dictator was reported by several sources to have died on 26 October, two weeks ago.
How many times has he died now? Is this the final death or will there be more?
Patrushev is the new boss.
Your are supposed to forget that Ukraine has now been linked by the “Washington Post” that cheered Ukraine for the last year or two to the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline.
“Senior Ukrainian military officer coordinated Nord Stream pipelines sabotage-newspaper”
https://tass.com/world/1704947
If any place has actual PROOF, it’s Russia.
Yet people get drunk on rumor and innuendo.
That’s the Internyet for you.
Tass?
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