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Link to tweet
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This thug is invading Ukraine NOW. Time for the press to call it out for what it is and callout Republican supporters including Fox News cheerleaders, Tucker Carlson.
Disgusting.
Malcolm Nance now reporting from Ukraine. This could be the largest land invasion since WWII, he says, and yet a fifth column within the US is excitedly celebrating, ready to undo post-WWII security agreements.
Insane. Seditious.
msongs
(67,405 posts)EndlessWire
(6,529 posts)There are a lot of troops and hardware up in Kaliningrad.
Irish_Dem
(47,057 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,706 posts)He is aging fast.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Eyes and injections
Not helping - he looks old and puffy
Rebl2
(13,506 posts)look well at all. He looks like he is on high dose of prednisone.
Celerity
(43,358 posts)Now
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,985 posts)peggysue2
(10,828 posts)What 7+ years have wrought! We're accustomed to seeing American presidents age in office. But this looks more than mere age. Wonder if the rumors of his failing health are true?
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)He is taking prednisone for something.
Celerity
(43,358 posts)and then, only 11 months later, he looks like shit, all puffy
Sept. 15, 2015
colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He was an ugly little troll before and he still looks like an ugly little troll.
The more I think about it, the more I can see how he and Trump are cut from the same cloth. It's not just the vanity, it's almost every aspect of their personalities. Putin's even starting to whine like TFG.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)He reminds me of a thinner Kruschev as he ages.
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)Also read speculation that he had Parkinson's disease. He's definitely had 'work' done.
I think he looks really bad in the pic accompanying the tweet I posted. Age is not treating the self-appointed Tsar very well and maybe that's haunting him, the years passing and his dream of reunifying the Russian Empire passing with them. Like most autocrats, he has all the traits of a malignant narcissist.
Or maybe he's just evil.
Or all of the above.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)on the Stephanie Miller Show, he said he was returning to the US this last weekend. Said he had his travel plans laid out.
But things change.
peggysue2
(10,828 posts)He was in Kiev. He was on Joy Reid's show tonight all bundled up, so I figured he was still in country.
And yes, things have definitely changed on the ground. The best laid plans and all that.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)There's no escaping fate, Vlad.
Irish_Dem
(47,057 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,057 posts)for the bloodshed.
bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)TNNurse
(6,926 posts)He looks pale and bloated and generally not well. We can only hope.
Cha
(297,220 posts)look closer.. and still with the vacant eyes.
Irish_Dem
(47,057 posts)They say he is on steroids, that would explain what we are seeing.
Steroids also increase aggressive behavior and also can cause psychotic like sxs.
Alice Kramden
(2,166 posts)Steroids - or possibly some kind of other hormone treatment.
Irish_Dem
(47,057 posts)Alice Kramden
(2,166 posts)Agree
Cha
(297,220 posts)Claiming these soldiers are peacekeepers is a sick joke. This is obviously PR for the Russian Homefront.
Cha
(297,220 posts)anybody with a brain can't see right through them.
BidenRocks
(826 posts)Do you like getting your ass kicked? See Afghanistan.
Do you think you can win against IEDs? We didn't.
All you get is many dead people.
Let's not play this game. You will lose. We are many, you are one.
You miss your Trumpie, don't you?
IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)it was to somehow defend the German people from something and these other countries' refusal to give him what he wants was oppression.
For anyone who doesn't like the Nazi comparison, Putin's Russia isn't that great for minorities or gay people either.
70sEraVet
(3,501 posts)When there's no informants around.
I suspect that he's got a bigger fan-base in the U.S. than in Russia.
Blue Owl
(50,373 posts)Sympthsical
(9,073 posts)And I don't see a shiny helmet.
(But seriously, I haven't seen a recent pic of Putin lately. He looks awful).