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Putin stages lavish dinner for dead soldiers' families on Orthodox Christmas Eve
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | January 7, 2024 | James Kilner

Posted on 01/09/2024 5:42:57 AM PST by Timber Rattler

Vladimir Putin staged a lavish Orthodox Christmas Eve dinner for children of soldiers killed in Ukraine as he attempted to present himself as a caring leader by ordering officials to do more for the country’s troops.

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The Russian leader vowed to back those “with arms in hands” as he hosted Saturday evening’s heavily choreographed event at his Novo-Ogaryovo residence on the outskirts of Moscow.

It came as festivities were cancelled in the border region of Belgorod amid continued Ukrainian attacks that have left dozens dead over the past week.

“Many of our men, our courageous, heroic men, the soldiers of Russia are right now defending the interests of our country with weapons in their hands, on this holiday,” Putin said.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: christmas; jameskilner; kia; putin
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Most surreal Christmas dinner yet...straight out of the Twilight Zone.

VIDEO

Note how he keeps his distance from his victims' families. The looks on the parents', spouses', and kids faces say it all.


1 posted on 01/09/2024 5:42:57 AM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler
talk about dead soldiers


2 posted on 01/09/2024 5:46:20 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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Not as many as the Muscovites...

Russia has lost 87% of troops it had prior to start of Ukraine war, according to US intelligence assessment

Putin’s war has lost Russia up to one million young men

3 posted on 01/09/2024 5:54:39 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: Timber Rattler

Sorry, CNN is not a valid source.


4 posted on 01/09/2024 6:07:15 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Timber Rattler

Let’s take the statement as true and Ukraine has lost 500,000, then what exactly is stopping the Russians?

The pretzels they twist themselves into still stuns me, trolls no, I get that this is their job, but I imagine not all are trolls and actually believe this stuff.

Imagine Ukrainian losses are high, but basic logic dispels these numbers

One of my favorites is the Russian shells fired= casualties. When you look a videos of acres of field pot marked by thousands of shell craters, yes that shows mass artillery fire, but does anyone believe that this fiends were full of Ukrainians when those shells were fired

Wouldn’t be surprised if we learn that artillery commanders told their men to fire X amount of rounds and the soldiers as where and the commander says don’t care just fire them so I can report shells fired….


5 posted on 01/09/2024 6:14:53 AM PST by blitz128
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Putin stages lavish dinner for dead soldiers' families on Orthodox Christmas Eve, while Zelensky Dances for Ukrainian widows and orphans:


6 posted on 01/09/2024 6:26:12 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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I’d be very careful about eating or drinking anything at any “banquet” hosted by V. Putin. Maybe if I could quietly switch plates and cups with him, while his back is turned, or bring a Taster.


7 posted on 01/09/2024 6:32:09 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Navy Patriot

Of course your comparison is false
What zalinsky did as a comedian, actor… in the past is a great way to make a point about today

Luckily , I am sure, that nothing you have done in your past could be viewed poorly
Reminds me of vanna white, she did a playboy shoot when she was young. In later interviews she lamented doing the shoot, the thing is if she had not done the shoot, she would not have been known, and good chance she would not have the wheel gig for the past decades

Trump is another one, he has done some pretty sketchy things in his past, would I want him as my pastor or marry my daughter? Not a chance, do I want him as president, absolutely.


8 posted on 01/09/2024 6:34:54 AM PST by blitz128
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Imagine the 100s of thousands of family’s that didn’t get to attend, are grateful for the gesture /s
Maybe some mink coats or bags of onions will suffice for their loved ones sacrifice.

Good to know PR people in Russia are also pretty dumb


9 posted on 01/09/2024 6:40:23 AM PST by blitz128
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To: Timber Rattler

Has Zelensky hosted a dinner for the 500,000 dead Uke soldiers yet…?


10 posted on 01/09/2024 6:41:25 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (I didn't come here to guide lambs, but to awaken lions 🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️)
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To: Timber Rattler

I have a hard time believing any numbers anymore, coming out of that craphole. Or anything from our corrupt gov’t, too.


11 posted on 01/09/2024 6:56:23 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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I accept your admission that you heartily endorse Zelensky's dancing, the motivation for, and message behind it, it is a Great Way to make a point about the quality of Leadership today.

I abhor your attempt to conflate President Trump's public events with Degenerate Zelensky's character.

President Trump legitimately presented himself as a Pro America, Pro Business, businessman, dealmaker and television personality, mostly non partisan, in an exciting field.

Give my sympathies to your daughter.

12 posted on 01/09/2024 7:08:40 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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Let's take the statement as true and Ukraine has lost 500,000, then what exactly is stopping the Russians?
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The Russian strategy is who will attrit out first.
13 posted on 01/09/2024 7:11:37 AM PST by iontheball
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Interesting strategy, so the country that “could” just roll over the depleted and nearly unnamed Ukrainian forces chooses not to but as a “goodwill” gesture enters rather into a “fair” war er ah sorry SMO of attrition?

Interesting strategy Cotton


14 posted on 01/09/2024 7:18:29 AM PST by blitz128
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To: Navy Patriot

My point is Trump as a person has some skeletons, some things he has done that are not perfect, that does not disqualify him for office and as a leader and president I put him at the top,
Likewise I think as a leader zalinsky has done well, his past aside.

If we picked leaders on being spotless moral beings, then they would be all Jimmy carters(I know he is not spotless), one of the worst presidents in modern time, till Obama and superseded by xiden.

Just my 2 cents


15 posted on 01/09/2024 8:54:41 AM PST by blitz128
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YOU need to be made to care more about our political prisoners than any fantasies you have about what is going on in Russia:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/01/rep_clay_higgins_the_fbi_lured_americans_into_a_january_6_trap.html

On January 6, 2024, the drive-by media went into overdrive, remembering (sometimes while oozing crocodile tears) the horrors of January 6, 2021. It was, they said, the day on which democracy was under attack...According to Rep. Clay Higgins (R. LA), who has been investigating what actually happened that day, when one deletes the layers of leftist propaganda, it appears that January 6 was a giant entrapment web that successfully stopped official challenges to election certification, made Trump even more toxic and, worst of all, turned his law-abiding supporters into criminals.

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Regarding the entrapment, Higgins states:

"The FBI had embedded themselves into various groups online across the country of Americans who were essentially voicing their concerns and airing their grievances with each other about COVID oppression. Those Americans were targeted by the FBI—almost universally Republicans and largely Trump supporters. But the FBI worked undercover and infiltrated those conversations and [had] become a significant part of those individual Americans’ communications.

And when you dig into the evidence that we've had revealed through some criminal cases that I've followed and worked with in families of J6 political detainees and Americans that have been persecuted for their involvement in the capital that day, some of that evidence shockingly reveals that the FBI agents that were operating undercover within the online groups across the country were the first ones to plant the seeds of a suggestions of a more radical occupation of the capital.

If you look at the origins of those conversations, they were started by the FBI undercover guy that was operating inside the group.

So Americans gathered at their own Capitol to appropriately air grievances and protests at their Capitol, but embedded amongst their number was an FBI asset that had been working from within their group online for many months."

16 posted on 01/09/2024 9:02:00 AM PST by Kazan
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Who is your candidate in the Republican primaries, Timber? Icky Nikki Haley?


17 posted on 01/09/2024 9:02:30 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Navy Patriot


You paranoid Kremlin monster


18 posted on 01/09/2024 9:23:49 AM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: blitz128
...I think as a leader zalinsky (SIC) has done well...

So does Soros, Schawb, Biden, American Degenerate Democrats, the Swamp, RINOs, GOPe, Every Corrupt Alphabet Agency, Every Nazi on Earth and Satan.

You have company.

19 posted on 01/09/2024 9:24:52 AM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Timber Rattler

Devilish dictator playing for “Orthodox” sympathies and support.


20 posted on 01/09/2024 9:35:07 AM PST by Wuli
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