Putin's Bleak Covid-19 Admission: 'We Don't Have Much to Brag About'

[Shermann]

Putin is humble and brutally honest here. I can't recall a time when Obama and Putin were faced with a similar situation and I thought to myself: "You know, I wish our American leader was being as honest as the Russian leader about this."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/world/europe/coronavirus-russia-putin.html

[coti]

1. It's an invitation for Trump to play hero and send Putin

all the supplies he's stolen from the states.

[intrepidity]

3. Yes, it sure is

It is tragic that I can imagine our president confiscating critical PPE supplies from the states who had to obtain them on their own, and then diverting those supplies to Russia to appease Putin.

I can totally see this happening.

[Shermann]

2. Well the states should be getting their own damn supplies

...not twiddling their thumbs waiting for the federal clerks to send them to them.

Maybe they can buy them back at a markup when he sends them to Russia.

[thucythucy]

4. I'm assuming sarcasm here. nt