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Not great for PR:
Four sources within the government and the Kremlin told The Moscow Times that security officials promoted this shocking and "risky" episode in the media to convince Russians that their leader is not hiding behind others, but is also supposedly taking risks and making sacrifices.
That's hilarious.
This is a guy who has literal body doubles.
He's a fucking coward and doesn't even trust people in the same room as him.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a PR spin.
I imagine the conversation going something like this:
"Holy shit, the Ukrainians almost hit the presidential helicopter. This makes us look real bad.
Okay, here's what we do. We tell everybody that it was us, and it was totally on purpose so they don't realize how close the Ukrainians came to winning the war"
I hope they got steven seagal a role in this.
If they stuffed him full of taco bell and lit his ass on fire, he could be a missile.
Lol, that would awesome except I'm not sure how he could fight from his chair wile Putin is in a helicopter. I guess he could be fighting the air traffic controllers or the ground crew from a chair? This script will probably have to go through a few revisions.
Karate-chopping drones like the hero he is.
All while sitting in a chair, in a night club.
Yeah, he's playing the heli. Spins his ponytail to take off, putin's right there cozy up his ass.
They are probably only admitting this now because it happened to make Ukraine look like badasses rather than villains.
Well that's just it, they aren't admitting it. People who knew about it leaked the deception.
I mean, they arent gonna hold a fucking press conference and announced that they staged a drone attack
No, but the difference here is I imagine whoever leaked that it was a PR stunt is gonna have a tragic case of defenestration.
Then I'm calling last year's assassination attempt on Trump staged as well.
That shot was awfully close. They'd have to have a lot of faith in the shooter's marksmanship.
The likelihood that a bullet was anywhere near his ear is remote. The views that show it are from a misleading perspective.
Was it?
Was the ear bandaid even real?
That shot is impossible to do reliably. Even the best marksman would be risking hitting Trump in the head. Literally, if Trump had not turned his head, the back of his skull would have been hit. We are talking a bolt action with match grade ammo, ballistic calculations, Trump turning his head at the perfect moment to just clip his ear, and enough luck to win the lottery with one ticket and consecutive numbers.
If they wanted to fake an assassination attempt, they would shoot him in the belly transverse with a low velocity 5.56.
There is insufficient evidence to suggest that his turning his head was at all relevant. It's unlikely that he was directly hit, due to both the lack of any visible scarring of any kind and the suppression of all medical evidence that would readily prove it. If there were proof, the compulsive liar would almost definitely leverage it.
Yea classic dictator bullshit. Erdoğan did it, Trump did it. You are too late to the party Putin.
Well, Putin still may have been the first. Remember him diving to find some ancient relics?
"Of course they were then left there for him to find or placed there. It is a completely normal thing to do."
Normal day in the life of a dictator
No fucking shit.
It's rare to get any real news out of Russia these days, but news critical of the regime... 😚👌
It's great to support Ukrainian outlets, but I wanted to go the extra mile - here's the source they're citing (their wikipedia page):
As ordinary Russians continue to bear the domestic brunt of Putin’s war, the Kremlin and the security services staged this PR stunt to convince the public that Putin, too, is making sacrifices for the country, four current and former Russian officials told The Moscow Times.
All of these sources spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive details related to Putin’s security.
With Ukrainian drone strikes, unprecedented flight cancellations at Russian airports and mobile internet outages becoming more frequent since May 9’s Victory Day celebrations, a display of Putin’s readiness to “personally risk his life” while performing his official duties could temper public dissatisfaction.
Ah, it sounds like heavenly bells when it's only Russia's oppression machinery grinding with sand.
lol. lmao even.
I'm shocked!