Well done to returning President Putin who won with a staggering 76% + of the vote.

A triumph of democracy and a mandate for further continued success in Russia.

Da zdravstvuyet prezident Putin - zdes' yeshche mnogo let destabiliziruyet Zapad i ubivayet svoikh protivnikov

Some people liked him that much they voted for him five times!!

Wow what a surprise, that came from left field!

whilst being congratulated in the bar afterwards an english journalist asked him " whats your poison ". He answered that he knew nothing about any poison.

I have a feeling that Russia will exceed expectations in the World Cup this summer.

dermotdermot wrote:I have a feeling that Russia will exceed expectations in the World Cup this summer.

The players or their gangs?

clive40golf wrote:Some people liked him that much they voted for him five times!!

At least 5 times!!! But your not saying it's corrupt are you?
Mandate to poison.

apparently people who have been dead for years have been coming back to life to Vote for Putin- hes that popular........................

With Putin in Russia and Trump in the USA, it is a really great time to be exiting Europe.
Pull up the draw bridges and put on the tin hats!

well...... he's overseen a country post-losing its empire, and its resources, and managed that process and to remain relevant. And in spite of only having the world's 12th-largest economy, even behind Canada, Italy, South Korea, he manages to remain THE single-most "issue" for both of the world's largest economies, the USA and China, to have to deal with. His international policy impact, and therefore influence goes beyond what it should be in reality.

I'm not promoting him at all, but the influence, positive or negative, is far more than it reasonably ought to be

Even the dead can vote inRussia - amazing what they can do these days.

Said in on the other thread, but Putin did stabilize a country that desperately needed stabilising.

Course he did it by essentially turning into his personal kingdom rather than a democratic state.

A rotten candidate for a rotten borough

mikeS wrote:Even the dead can vote inRussia - amazing what they can do these days.

I think that's happened in the UK.

Sean D will be listening to this today
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Russians like him, he has tapped into something.

That’s some majority.

I wonder if he had any nerves in the lead-up to the result

Yup, he's tapped into their fear of foreigners and convinced them that the West is coming for them again.

Course, he's had to ruthlessly make sure that no negative news gets out (recent legislation means he doesn't even have to tell the next of kin of soldiers killed in Syria or Ukraine where they died and can just say it was a training accident)

Hbclaret007 wrote:With Putin in Russia and Trump in the USA, it is a really great time to be exiting Europe.
Pull up the draw bridges and put on the tin hats!

Trump the man that's on the way to de-nuclearising North Korea?

Cheers Sean Spicer

He's said he's willing to meet, at an unspecified location, at an unspecified time and to talk about unspecified subject which is all great, but he's still miles away from achieving that.

CoolClaret wrote:Trump the man that's on the way to de-nuclearising North Korea?

There seems to be a lot of insider knowledge on this thread. Just wondering where it all came from. I'm sure it can't be people believing all they read in our newspapers or what our government release as 'information' because I don't believe people are that naive.
If anyone could tell me I'd love to know.

I call it "reading books"

It'll never catch on

Lancasterclaret wrote:I call it "reading books"

You be one of them page turners, you not be from round here then..

I agree with houseboy but am willing to hang fire on a definitive judgement until Turtle or Up his Beehole come along and tell us what to think.

NRC wrote:I'm not promoting him at all, but the influence, positive or negative, is far more than it reasonably ought to be

Careful NRC, you have to look at this in black and white terms, otherwise people will tell you to 'go and live in Siberia.' Although, judging by social media this winter, the UK had similar temperatures.

The thing is, the UK is quite happy to rubbish Russia but at the same time it's quite happy to accept billions of their dirty gangster money and invest it into businesses, like football teams.

The UK's more than a tad hypocritical when playing the grand moralist.

The ruling elite in this country will do nothing whilst selling property in London to the likes of Abramovich

boiledclaret wrote:Careful NRC, you have to look at this in black and white terms, otherwise people will tell you to 'go and live in Siberia.' Although, judging by social media this winter, the UK had similar temperatures.

The thing is, the UK is quite happy to rubbish Russia but at the same time it's quite happy to accept billions of their dirty gangster money and invest it into businesses, like football teams.

The UK's more than a tad hypocritical when playing the grand moralist.

And any attempt to point this out gets you called a self-loathing cuck from certain types of people.

The UK is like a cheap tart, will take money from anywhere / anyone.
Been like that for a long long time and it isn't going to change anytime soon.

I know, next thing you know Boris Johnson will be accepting £160,000 to play tennis with the wife of a former Russian minister. She also paid £30,000 to have dinner with the boy Gavin Williamson, our esteemed Defence Secretary. Perhaps she should have gone away and shut up....
Funny, corrupt old world, isn't it ?

Democracy Russian style .The Czar relected .

As an aside, and prompted by WoodleyClaret, is Russia still considered a democratic communist country or now a right wing capitalist fascist country ?

Not that there's a lot of difference between either.

HatfieldClaret wrote:As an aside, and prompted by WoodleyClaret, is Russia still considered a democratic communist country or now a right wing capitalist fascist country ?

Not that there's a lot of difference between either.

Someone needs to learn the economic difference between capitalism & fascism...

CoolClaret wrote:Someone needs to learn the economic difference between capitalism & fascism...

And the difference between democracy and communism. Effort for big words though.

It's just Sour Grapes*





* The latest generation of nerve agent^

^side effects include shriveled testicles.

CoolClaret wrote:Someone needs to learn the economic difference between capitalism & fascism...

Sometimes it's kinda hard to tell the difference. Have you seen the NRA adverts recently?

Despotism in the sense Putin has absolute power whether that is fairly benign or not.

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HatfieldClaret wrote:
As an aside, and prompted by WoodleyClaret, is Russia still considered a democratic communist country or now a right wing capitalist fascist country ?

Not that there's a lot of difference between either.


Someone needs to learn the economic difference between capitalism & fascism...
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CoolClaret wrote:
Someone needs to learn the economic difference between capitalism & fascism...


And the difference between democracy and communism. Effort for big words though.


Pardon my ignorance in that there can't be fascist capitalism. I think you can certainly have democratic communism....

I'll shorten it for you to make it easier, is Russia fascist or communist ?

Neither, its a monarchy with a very small but very wealthy upper class.

Russia is controlled chaos with a bit of an oligarchy. Not to the severity that it was pre the Soviet Union

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I'm not the one who needs it simplifying. It's authoritarian.

He's not as good at corruption as Mugabe was as he always got 100% of the votes

Lancasterclaret wrote:Neither, its a monarchy with a very small but very wealthy upper class.

Russia isn't a monarchy.

It's an authoritarian plutocracy.

Fine, its not a monarchy if you want.

Putin is effectively the Tsar, and the oligarchs are well, the oligarchs.

I like Tractorface answer better than mine to be honest!

Putin and the Oligarchs, saw them play years ago at Imp Nelson

Ill give him his due, he has got a lot of NERVE, shame its the wrong type.

Lancasterclaret wrote:Da zdravstvuyet prezident Putin - zdes' yeshche mnogo let destabiliziruyet Zapad i ubivayet svoikh protivnikov

Hi Lancasterclaret, did you "break cover" with your post earlier? I don't think any of us knew you spoke Russian?

What have you done with our "Lancaster?"

With any luck, no one else will have noticed.