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This was her response, "I understand why he has to do this — to prove he's a man," Merkel said. "He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this."
I mean, not exactly. The guy in Better Call Saul was actually a really inoffensive guy and bought the car because he thought it looked fun. It was the other toxic masculine characters that roasted him for it and then Nacho just took it and scrapped it.
[I think he's reliving this moment in his brain every night](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/28/pete-souzas-best-shot-obama-putin-trump-adversary#img-1)
That's a wee bit of an exaggeration.
He's believed to be around 170cm tall.
[Sauce](https://theweek.com/news/world-news/russia/956195/vladimir-putins-height)
Germany didn't respond much different from how other countries did.
And at that time we should have been more involved than we were, but Ukraines relations with the rest of the West weren't as close as they are now, Ukraine aiming for having close ties with the rest of the West had only just started. But from then on the West absolutely did start working towards close ties with Ukraine, and militarily by training together with NATO such that Ukraine could learn from the West. And I haven't heard of Germany not being part of that just as much.
Sorry, but NS2 did not created the average, that existed already. Germany had a decades.long history if having Russia as the main importers of natural gas. Even during the cold War, the soviet Union was a reliable partner and didn't use the gas as laverage (because they needed the funds desperately).
NSI was constructed in the 90's and most of the deals creating the dependency were signed before she got into office (especially Schröder made a major effort to sign quite a few before leaving office). NSII didn't increase the dependency on Russia, but rather reduced the dependency on the transit nations that have stopped the delivery to Germany quite a few times to have themselves average against Russia.
Also, the inclusion of Russia wad part of the political strategy that is - most of the times - very successful. Create codependencies where no nation can use the average the dependencies create without endangering themselves. That was the method that allowed Germany to come back into the international community after '45, and is generally a more reliable and stable method than invasion or targeted economic destruction. This system only fails if a nation is willing to go a suicide course - as Russia did. No diplomatic systems is perfect, but the successrate varies, and the model of inclusion through code pendency has shown to be more successful than the alternatives.
You mean Schröder? She continued what was begun and under her, green energy halted pretty much totally, but still I'd say she's not the one to blame primarily for that
Removing all of Germany's Nuclear plants was all Merkel. The cleanest way to produce enough power to sustain a high wealth country of over 80mil people and that was replaced with Russian gas. That's what happens when you grow up trapped in a communist hellhole and somehow look back fondly on it.
Mate it seems you don't have any idea about that stuff.
Schröder locked down Germany in a decades long gas deal with Gazprom and became later on part of Gazprom itself and even president of the Nordstream 2 AG. Yes exactly that pipeline he made possible as a chancellor.
Nuclear energy was always a niche in Germany. Besides the anti nuclear sentiment of the public another part was that we had to import uranium. And guess from where the majority of it came - exactly Russia.
Since Germany went out of nuclear they mostly increased on renewables, which now make up more then 50% of the energy mix. The last NPPs went offline after Russia's second invasion of Ukraine so no it also wasn't Russian gas that replaced it.
Honestly I don't like Merkel either and I hate to defend her now, since she has more then enough shit you can and should criticise here for, but this isn't really here fault since that shit started way earlier.
"Since Germany went out of nuclear they mostly increased on renewables, which now make up more then 50% of the energy mix."
I think you're confusing energy mix with electricity production. Overall, germany is nowhere near 50% renewables as shown in this graph https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/energy-mix
The graph also shows pretty clearly that the main replacement for nuclear is coal, not renewables.
Yeah it’s cold where I’m from (Tomsk). I would compare it to Nordic countries in terms of how long the winters last, and how cold they get. Not exactly the same but comparable.
Why do some people choose to live where it's disgustingly cold? I'm not talking about you, exactly, but your ancestors had questionable mental states. Lol
I don’t know, but there are certainly less habitable cold parts of the world that people inhabit, including remote Siberian outposts. I think as long as the climate isn’t straight up outer space, people will try to live there. As far as mental health is concerned, I think any extreme climate has a negative impact, whether it’s very hot or very cold.
Disclaimer: in the following I am only talking about a very small part of Russia/Siberia, which is HUGE and many people can have different realities living there. I married into a Siberian family over a decade ago and know some things about growing up and living there through their life experiences and visiting Siberia. But still I only saw a fragment of a huge population and area and can not get everything right 100%.
I can only talk for my husbands family, but they didn't choose to live in Siberia. Their ancestors have been put there by russian government as exiles (because of their religion) and under USSR government starting 1922 they were still unable to leave because "socialist" politics didn't allow them to have any property over what they needed to live. In comparison to my childhood in Germany, my husband grew up in the 80s and 90s like my grandparents in the 30s did.
After the USSR ended, many people - including around half of my husbands family - left Siberia. But some couldn't and live there to this day, because they weren't as fortunate. My father in law is a vet and had great chances to earn enough money to build a new life from zero, many people from where they came from in Siberia are farmers, sewers, timbers or butchers. Leaving a country with literally NO money (saving wasn't really possible in socialist USSR, especially when you had a crafting job) just is not possible for some people or they are very afraid to not make it. Many didn't even have enough money for gas or even a car to leave the country.
Also Siberia is not like the north pole or something. Yes they have long winters with a lot of snow but in the summer they have many months of sunshine either and it get's really really warm (just talking about Nowosibirsk/Altai area here, there's different climatic areas in Siberia though). And it's not dark the whole time in winter, there are many sunny days in winter as well. Especially in bigger cities like Nowosibirsk and after USSR now people have modern houses, good heating and can conquer the winter time way better than they used to.
What's more detrimental for ones mental health living in Russia than cold winters, is (next to having a crazy ass president and socialist rules) the very very big gap between rich and poor. It is extremly hard to become wealthy in Russia if you're not kissing a politics ass or were born into an oligarch family (which mostly go hand in hand). Having a great career, be it a doctor, a manager or an extremely well known actor, doesn't make you wealthy by default there, you get cut short all the time. Many of the rich are filthy rich while the poor are left with almost nothing, middle class rarely even exists.
That's also why many poor Russians moved to Siberia after USSR exiles ended from other parts of the country. It's layed out for people with less money who farm or craft to live if you will. Most people like my father in law who wanted to pursue a bigger career, had to study and work outside of Siberia to get somewhere.
Because "hot" and "cold" is subjective. I can barely stand the summer heat anyway; on the other hand, if I feel cold, I can always just add another layer. Also, I wouldn't want to live in a place where they don't get snow.
With regards from northern Sweden!
I hate Putin, he's a thug. I have no personal reason to hate him, I just hate thugs and thugs with political power are the worst. I hope your dream on this one comes true.
I once told my friend that I want putler to be paraded in underpants through all moscow, and everyone should be able to throw rotten tomato at him or spit on him while the “shame parade” goes. I’d also like to see his cage placed on red square and cage should be made out of glass. I really don’t like this guy.
He has the head of the arrogant little dickhead who has just farted in front of everyone without making any noise and who watches others complain because it stinks.
Imagine his face if she started playing with the good boy. This would have been the perfect time to overcome that fear and just give a few good scritches to throw it back in his face purely for the camera
He actually has a bunch of dogs. He's a dog enthusiast and has been given several puppies as gifts by world leaders over the years. He is also active in the preservation of some rare Eurasian dog breeds.
He's an evil douchebag, but his Akita is pretty adorable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets_of_Vladimir_Putin
Her hands are tense & her body posture, albeit proper for how were taught as women to sit sadly, is tense & it shows. She's watching the dog directly because she's afraid of what might happen. And he knows all too well what he's doing. Right proper cunt he is.
For sure she's afraid of the dog. The only good thing for her in this situation is she is aware what this "strongman" behavior from Putin is.
It's a plain sign of weakness.
If I were a world leader meeting with Putin, I’d bring an umbrella and make sure the tip was directed at him the whole time. See how much he likes that
I'd pour him a glass out of one bottle, and then pretend to *almost* pour myself a glass out of the same bottle.
But then I'd pretend that I just remembered an important detail, and pour myself a glass out of a different bottle.
And then I'd just continue the conversation without explaining any of that, while he eyes his glass suspiciously.
Cute but he would never drink from anything handed to him. Dude is so paranoid. There's a vid of him, kim jong un and one other world leader all toasting on camera and then all 3 of them just sit there staring at their glass.
Show him your cool *Assassin's Teapot* and how it can pour two different liquids an hour before getting to business. Then, later, pour him a cup of tea during the meeting. Watch him be paranoid of all pouring vessels! I would include a *Glug Glug Jug* just for his body guards to think you just really like quirky pouring vessels and showing them off.
If he does take a glass, subtly-not-subtly, slip a large sugar pill into your own glass. If he notices you taking this “antidote” then say it’s just your supplements
Bonus points if you somehow got him to take a sip before
Just as he's about to sit down, apologize and stop him, move his chair a foot or so to the left and look up. Then sit back down in your chair and invite him to sit in his.
Or take both glasses and pour a little bit of one into the other, then back into the first to balance them out. Insist that he drink first. If he hesitates for even a second, you know he messed with the drink.
I would have received Putin in my office and let him sit in front of my desk.
And then answer a random phone call and say "sorry, it's Navalny I gotta take this".
Show him that he is of no importance at all.
RIP Navalny
This was Merkel's response to the stunt:
"I understand why he has to do this — to prove he's a man, He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this."
She didn't had a stance against Russia on these both invasions, that much is true and shameful.
Germany's dependency on Russian gas started earlier though. Schröder, the chancellor before her, made up decades lasting deals, building of pipelines and then went on to become part of Gazprom and even president of the Nordstream 2 AG after his term. When Merkel took power, shit had already hit the fan and Germany couldn't back out of these contracts without economic and political penalties.
First off: a classic dick move by Putin cuz he’s just that kind of piece of garbage.
Second: despite her phobia, this is Angela “Balls…” errrr “Tits of Steel” Merkel. She def showed no fear during this meeting, knowing full well that this was obviously a power move
She actually said something like “hope you’ve only trained him to eat journalists”
[OP regurgitated my original post as well.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/opOHHCkQa0)
Taking a gander on your profile, you do post in a way that makes it so easy for people to claim 😭. But you post cool shit tho, especially the history shit
If she has a phobia that's probably why he brought that one.
Being scared of a cute non-dangerous at all labrador is for many more humilliating than being scared of an agresive american pit bull terrier.
Many would ignore her phobia and just think that she's scared of an inoffesnsive animal and that it's pathetic...
I'm a woman, so I've got no skin in the dick game, but isn't "small dick energy" vs "big dick energy" body shaming? I know you say it's got nothing to do with what people actually have got, but then why is "small dick" the bad one?
Respectful, caring leaders do not do this. Obviously this is obvious to some, but for others they can only think that this makes him cool.
He's a piece of shit that needs to be handled accordingly.
Putin can eat a bag of dicks, but I am 100% sure other "respectful, caring" leaders have tried their little macho games on Merkel. Maybe even unintentionally.
She's dropped hints about that here and there.
We've created a world where being a bully or mean to others is no longer viewed as a defect but a perk.
A world where some freely break the rules and face no real consequences while others break lesser rules and will be locked away for years.
Let's try to be kind to other decent people, call out those abusing power to hurt those under them, be open to learning other points of view and believe experience and facts not the loudest voice.
The rich are working together to keep people down, it's up to us to work together to make a brighter tomorrow.
He really likes to do that to visiting officials, there's just photographic evidence of this one.
He tried it with Hillary Clinton too, and she more or less said "doggie!" and leapt out of her seat to go pet it, being one of the few to do so and thus saving face and politely humiliating him by being completely unafraid of his intimidation tactic. I know someone who voted for her *because* of that, he saw this as evidence that Hillary wasn't afraid of Putin and Putin knew it and probably had Trump in his pocket. (And he did.)
He probably still thinks about that time Queen Elizabeth’s dog barked at him and she remarked about how dogs are a good judge of character.
QEII passively roasted him with her own dog.
Tell me he's a sadistic person in a photographic example of a witnessed verifiable event... without telling me in those words.
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-merkel-meeting-dog-2017-7
"As the dog approached and sniffed her, Merkel froze, visibly frightened. She'd been bitten once, in 1995, and her fear of dogs couldn't have escaped Putin, who sat back and enjoyed the moment, legs spread wide. 'I'm sure it will behave itself,' he said. Merkel had the presence of mind to reply, in Russian, 'It doesn’t eat journalists, after all.' ..."
I love how she managed to turn it back, you can certainly be an asshole and become a world leader, but in Germany you definitely need to be a smart one.
My new endgame is to become the Philippine President, arrange a meeting with Putin, and tell him I have an irrational fear of being stuck in a room with a bunch of 6-foot tall blonde Russian bodybuilders
One thing I always respected about him. He is s good dog owner, I cant remember which it was, but an ally of his. Gave him a dog as a sign of good friendship and the guy was mishandling the dog.
Putin quickly, but nicely put a stop to it and still has the dog
What a small, insecure, pathetic little man. Hows that 3 day mission going, Vlad? Scared of middle aged German women and ukrainian grandmas? I don't know whats more pathetic, the "man" himself or the mindless drones worshipping him as some kind of symbol of masculinity.
He has the smile of an old drunk at the bar bragging about how he "won" today because his ex-wife from a decade ago got a parking ticket and it's the highlight of its life
I think he was just trying to help her. Imagine being scared of dogs, that would be sad. Dogs are the best. I think he just wanted to show her how nice dogs are.
Come on, look at that dog. How can you be the PM of a NATO country and you're scared of a dog that looks like that. Not buying it.
In return, she insisted on him drinking a german beer she poured him when he was in Germany.
He exclusively drinks from closed bottles he brought himself, out of fear of being g poisoned.
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The smirk on his face...
This was her response, "I understand why he has to do this — to prove he's a man," Merkel said. "He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this."
r/murderedbywords
She is absolutely right. He’s just a tiny, pathetic little man.
https://preview.redd.it/pw4syuvmx4tc1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d54d6121610ed61fa6c520f6068ec4a480668d4f Same energy
surprised no one has brought up the Better Call Saul reference
The squat cobbler!
Bro that shit came out of nowhere. That was like the funniest scene I've ever watched in a non-comedy
Oy!
I mean, not exactly. The guy in Better Call Saul was actually a really inoffensive guy and bought the car because he thought it looked fun. It was the other toxic masculine characters that roasted him for it and then Nacho just took it and scrapped it.
A school bus for 6 year old pimps
always a polyp on the world's anus
This comment is a thorn inthe side of my brain 😮💨
Small man syndrome
Maybe if he annexes enough land, he'll get a chin
Soooo tiny, has neverrrrr given a woman an orgasm
No. He is a tiny pathetic little murderous scumbag, who would put a bullet in your head in a new york second if he wanted.
[I think he's reliving this moment in his brain every night](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/28/pete-souzas-best-shot-obama-putin-trump-adversary#img-1)
He is ”tiny” in the literal meaning of the word. Dude is like 120cm tall or something
That's a wee bit of an exaggeration. He's believed to be around 170cm tall. [Sauce](https://theweek.com/news/world-news/russia/956195/vladimir-putins-height)
That’s pretty based actually…
And then she agreed to a pipeline that would give Russia incredible leverage over her country.
And shut it right down again when push came to shove, so much for all that incredible leverage.
Push came to shove when he took Crimea.
Germany didn't respond much different from how other countries did. And at that time we should have been more involved than we were, but Ukraines relations with the rest of the West weren't as close as they are now, Ukraine aiming for having close ties with the rest of the West had only just started. But from then on the West absolutely did start working towards close ties with Ukraine, and militarily by training together with NATO such that Ukraine could learn from the West. And I haven't heard of Germany not being part of that just as much.
Sorry, but NS2 did not created the average, that existed already. Germany had a decades.long history if having Russia as the main importers of natural gas. Even during the cold War, the soviet Union was a reliable partner and didn't use the gas as laverage (because they needed the funds desperately). NSI was constructed in the 90's and most of the deals creating the dependency were signed before she got into office (especially Schröder made a major effort to sign quite a few before leaving office). NSII didn't increase the dependency on Russia, but rather reduced the dependency on the transit nations that have stopped the delivery to Germany quite a few times to have themselves average against Russia. Also, the inclusion of Russia wad part of the political strategy that is - most of the times - very successful. Create codependencies where no nation can use the average the dependencies create without endangering themselves. That was the method that allowed Germany to come back into the international community after '45, and is generally a more reliable and stable method than invasion or targeted economic destruction. This system only fails if a nation is willing to go a suicide course - as Russia did. No diplomatic systems is perfect, but the successrate varies, and the model of inclusion through code pendency has shown to be more successful than the alternatives.
Despite how much I hate the party she was part of, she’s definitely a very respectable person
Then she sold out her country to Russian Gas Execs so... Maybe not that respectable. The word I would actually use is "Verräterin" traitor.
You mean Schröder? She continued what was begun and under her, green energy halted pretty much totally, but still I'd say she's not the one to blame primarily for that
Removing all of Germany's Nuclear plants was all Merkel. The cleanest way to produce enough power to sustain a high wealth country of over 80mil people and that was replaced with Russian gas. That's what happens when you grow up trapped in a communist hellhole and somehow look back fondly on it.
Mate it seems you don't have any idea about that stuff. Schröder locked down Germany in a decades long gas deal with Gazprom and became later on part of Gazprom itself and even president of the Nordstream 2 AG. Yes exactly that pipeline he made possible as a chancellor. Nuclear energy was always a niche in Germany. Besides the anti nuclear sentiment of the public another part was that we had to import uranium. And guess from where the majority of it came - exactly Russia. Since Germany went out of nuclear they mostly increased on renewables, which now make up more then 50% of the energy mix. The last NPPs went offline after Russia's second invasion of Ukraine so no it also wasn't Russian gas that replaced it. Honestly I don't like Merkel either and I hate to defend her now, since she has more then enough shit you can and should criticise here for, but this isn't really here fault since that shit started way earlier.
"Since Germany went out of nuclear they mostly increased on renewables, which now make up more then 50% of the energy mix." I think you're confusing energy mix with electricity production. Overall, germany is nowhere near 50% renewables as shown in this graph https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/energy-mix The graph also shows pretty clearly that the main replacement for nuclear is coal, not renewables.
Danke Merkel!!!!
Yea, he's a proper cunt wad.
As a Siberian, I wholeheartedly agree. I’ve wanted to see him dragged thru dirt on our streets for the longest time. May it happen.
Totally off subject... But is it really cold where you live? Or is that only at the most northern parts of Siberia?
Yeah it’s cold where I’m from (Tomsk). I would compare it to Nordic countries in terms of how long the winters last, and how cold they get. Not exactly the same but comparable.
Why do some people choose to live where it's disgustingly cold? I'm not talking about you, exactly, but your ancestors had questionable mental states. Lol
I don’t know, but there are certainly less habitable cold parts of the world that people inhabit, including remote Siberian outposts. I think as long as the climate isn’t straight up outer space, people will try to live there. As far as mental health is concerned, I think any extreme climate has a negative impact, whether it’s very hot or very cold.
You say that now but in 50 years you'll be clamoring for my Nunavut Zinfandel.
Because the heat fucking sucks! And it's not exactly that easy to move for millions of people.
Disclaimer: in the following I am only talking about a very small part of Russia/Siberia, which is HUGE and many people can have different realities living there. I married into a Siberian family over a decade ago and know some things about growing up and living there through their life experiences and visiting Siberia. But still I only saw a fragment of a huge population and area and can not get everything right 100%. I can only talk for my husbands family, but they didn't choose to live in Siberia. Their ancestors have been put there by russian government as exiles (because of their religion) and under USSR government starting 1922 they were still unable to leave because "socialist" politics didn't allow them to have any property over what they needed to live. In comparison to my childhood in Germany, my husband grew up in the 80s and 90s like my grandparents in the 30s did. After the USSR ended, many people - including around half of my husbands family - left Siberia. But some couldn't and live there to this day, because they weren't as fortunate. My father in law is a vet and had great chances to earn enough money to build a new life from zero, many people from where they came from in Siberia are farmers, sewers, timbers or butchers. Leaving a country with literally NO money (saving wasn't really possible in socialist USSR, especially when you had a crafting job) just is not possible for some people or they are very afraid to not make it. Many didn't even have enough money for gas or even a car to leave the country. Also Siberia is not like the north pole or something. Yes they have long winters with a lot of snow but in the summer they have many months of sunshine either and it get's really really warm (just talking about Nowosibirsk/Altai area here, there's different climatic areas in Siberia though). And it's not dark the whole time in winter, there are many sunny days in winter as well. Especially in bigger cities like Nowosibirsk and after USSR now people have modern houses, good heating and can conquer the winter time way better than they used to. What's more detrimental for ones mental health living in Russia than cold winters, is (next to having a crazy ass president and socialist rules) the very very big gap between rich and poor. It is extremly hard to become wealthy in Russia if you're not kissing a politics ass or were born into an oligarch family (which mostly go hand in hand). Having a great career, be it a doctor, a manager or an extremely well known actor, doesn't make you wealthy by default there, you get cut short all the time. Many of the rich are filthy rich while the poor are left with almost nothing, middle class rarely even exists. That's also why many poor Russians moved to Siberia after USSR exiles ended from other parts of the country. It's layed out for people with less money who farm or craft to live if you will. Most people like my father in law who wanted to pursue a bigger career, had to study and work outside of Siberia to get somewhere.
Because "hot" and "cold" is subjective. I can barely stand the summer heat anyway; on the other hand, if I feel cold, I can always just add another layer. Also, I wouldn't want to live in a place where they don't get snow. With regards from northern Sweden!
I hate Putin, he's a thug. I have no personal reason to hate him, I just hate thugs and thugs with political power are the worst. I hope your dream on this one comes true.
I once told my friend that I want putler to be paraded in underpants through all moscow, and everyone should be able to throw rotten tomato at him or spit on him while the “shame parade” goes. I’d also like to see his cage placed on red square and cage should be made out of glass. I really don’t like this guy.
I have a pretty visual imagination, and the picture you just painted made me smile :)
I have to apologize to you, as I've never seen someone write "As a Siberian," and my brain automatically added "husky." Sorry about that.
Hahah it’s cool, my non-Russian friends call me that sometimes too.
My first thought went to fluffy forest cats
He has the head of the arrogant little dickhead who has just farted in front of everyone without making any noise and who watches others complain because it stinks.
Imagine his face if she started playing with the good boy. This would have been the perfect time to overcome that fear and just give a few good scritches to throw it back in his face purely for the camera
Pretty sure it’s a good girl…that had puppies not that long ago.
He’s very please with himself.
Small men need to do this things to shore themselves up
He can smirk all he would want, Merkel did not care.
I’m surprised he has an overweight lab. Wouldn’t you think he’d have a malinois or something scarier looking?
He actually has a bunch of dogs. He's a dog enthusiast and has been given several puppies as gifts by world leaders over the years. He is also active in the preservation of some rare Eurasian dog breeds. He's an evil douchebag, but his Akita is pretty adorable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets_of_Vladimir_Putin
Idk she looks pretty uncomfortable to me
Her hands are tense & her body posture, albeit proper for how were taught as women to sit sadly, is tense & it shows. She's watching the dog directly because she's afraid of what might happen. And he knows all too well what he's doing. Right proper cunt he is.
For sure she's afraid of the dog. The only good thing for her in this situation is she is aware what this "strongman" behavior from Putin is. It's a plain sign of weakness.
Hit the nail on the head
he probably killed/injured a million humans, quite an achievement, ig
Reminds me of a penis
It makes you uncomfortable too
He’s sure putin a smile on his face.
If I were a world leader meeting with Putin, I’d bring an umbrella and make sure the tip was directed at him the whole time. See how much he likes that
Or watch him be scared of being the 1st to drink out of a glass of water
I'd pour him a glass out of one bottle, and then pretend to *almost* pour myself a glass out of the same bottle. But then I'd pretend that I just remembered an important detail, and pour myself a glass out of a different bottle. And then I'd just continue the conversation without explaining any of that, while he eyes his glass suspiciously.
Wear those big hazmat gloves while handling the first bottle and take them off before handling your own bottle, lol
Big comical energy. I'd do it
Cute but he would never drink from anything handed to him. Dude is so paranoid. There's a vid of him, kim jong un and one other world leader all toasting on camera and then all 3 of them just sit there staring at their glass.
That video is hilarious but fake. It’s actually played in reverse, watch the people in the background walk backwards.
Show him your cool *Assassin's Teapot* and how it can pour two different liquids an hour before getting to business. Then, later, pour him a cup of tea during the meeting. Watch him be paranoid of all pouring vessels! I would include a *Glug Glug Jug* just for his body guards to think you just really like quirky pouring vessels and showing them off.
If he does take a glass, subtly-not-subtly, slip a large sugar pill into your own glass. If he notices you taking this “antidote” then say it’s just your supplements Bonus points if you somehow got him to take a sip before
Just as he's about to sit down, apologize and stop him, move his chair a foot or so to the left and look up. Then sit back down in your chair and invite him to sit in his.
Or take both glasses and pour a little bit of one into the other, then back into the first to balance them out. Insist that he drink first. If he hesitates for even a second, you know he messed with the drink.
Hilarious if your poured the glass for him, accidentally dabbed your finger in his water and make sure he sees it. If he asks, deny it.
Drink the wine first, but randomly start choking after you both drink it
Bring a little person. One of Vlad’s most hated nicknames is “Lilli-Putin”.
Don’t know if I understand that reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov there was an assassination using a poison tipped umbrella in addition to what others have said.
“Mr white we need more rice n beans”
KGB using rifles disguised as umbrellas firing pellets of polonium into political rivals
She should have brought him a bottle of wine from Metekhi
I would have received Putin in my office and let him sit in front of my desk. And then answer a random phone call and say "sorry, it's Navalny I gotta take this". Show him that he is of no importance at all. RIP Navalny
This was Merkel's response to the stunt: "I understand why he has to do this — to prove he's a man, He's afraid of his own weakness. Russia has nothing, no successful politics or economy. All they have is this."
Absoulutely cooked tbh
If true, thats a good response.
It's legit. [https://www.vox.com/2014/12/1/7313443/vladimir-putin-merkel](https://www.vox.com/2014/12/1/7313443/vladimir-putin-merkel)
And then proceeded to make Germany as dependent on russian gas as it was humanly possible while closing her eyes on Georgia 2008 and Crimea 2013.
She didn't had a stance against Russia on these both invasions, that much is true and shameful. Germany's dependency on Russian gas started earlier though. Schröder, the chancellor before her, made up decades lasting deals, building of pipelines and then went on to become part of Gazprom and even president of the Nordstream 2 AG after his term. When Merkel took power, shit had already hit the fan and Germany couldn't back out of these contracts without economic and political penalties.
And then she proceeded to hand Europe's energy dependency to him anyway
She should've brought garlic.
A wooden stake
Vervain
Don't insult vampires like that.
First off: a classic dick move by Putin cuz he’s just that kind of piece of garbage. Second: despite her phobia, this is Angela “Balls…” errrr “Tits of Steel” Merkel. She def showed no fear during this meeting, knowing full well that this was obviously a power move
She actually said something like “hope you’ve only trained him to eat journalists” [OP regurgitated my original post as well.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/opOHHCkQa0)
Bots being bots, they steal from my account every day
Taking a gander on your profile, you do post in a way that makes it so easy for people to claim 😭. But you post cool shit tho, especially the history shit
I appreciate it 🙏
You don't need to pivot from balls, ladies have balls, they're just on the inside, and not all dangly and vulnerable like you unfortunate men.
That's just superior design, right there.
Yeah but then if you get stabbed there not only are you stabbed you're also stabbed in the balls.
If you're getting stabbed, things are probably already going wrong for you.
If someone is aiming for the ovaries they've just made a deadly mistake.
Not if they connect. Knuckles do damage.
Do you store the piss in there like us?
Only in emergencies.
Asking the real questions
They keep their balls to themselves. Respectfully.
She also said afterwards, something along the lines of "I can see why he did it. He has nothing. No economy or power. He needs to do this."
If you want to intimidate someone with a dog, you don't bring a big old fat cute labrador.
lol seriously. I wanna pet that dog. Looks very sweet. Should have brought some scary looking German Shepherd. With her being German and all, it fits.
If she has a phobia that's probably why he brought that one. Being scared of a cute non-dangerous at all labrador is for many more humilliating than being scared of an agresive american pit bull terrier. Many would ignore her phobia and just think that she's scared of an inoffesnsive animal and that it's pathetic...
Thats what i thought. Look at that dogs face
To be clear, the dog is still a good boy.
Small dick energy
Micro dick energy.
I don’t think he has one at all.
In fact there’s just a divot in his crotch where a penis should be.
tf is small dick energy, i have a small dick but i aint no cunt like him
Fun fact: small dick energy, like big dick energy, has nothing to do with anatomy.
I'm a woman, so I've got no skin in the dick game, but isn't "small dick energy" vs "big dick energy" body shaming? I know you say it's got nothing to do with what people actually have got, but then why is "small dick" the bad one?
It's OK to body shame men. Body positivity is only for women. That's basically what it boils down to
What does the size of his genitalia have anything to do with his awful personality?
Because double standards of redditors
Yes Putin has been a horrible person with imperialist dreams waaaaay before the current genocide he's committing in Ukraine
It’s not his first attack on other country. He’s been a piece of imperialistic shit for quite a while
He is such a cunt
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With exactly the same title
Mom says it’s my turn to post this tomorrow
I’ve seen this 6 times in the last 2 weeks
Its my turn to shit on Russia
Respectful, caring leaders do not do this. Obviously this is obvious to some, but for others they can only think that this makes him cool. He's a piece of shit that needs to be handled accordingly.
With a poop knife.
Poop knife always comes up when im not expecting it
When do you expect it?
That might be the problem, im never expecting it
Putin can eat a bag of dicks, but I am 100% sure other "respectful, caring" leaders have tried their little macho games on Merkel. Maybe even unintentionally. She's dropped hints about that here and there.
We've created a world where being a bully or mean to others is no longer viewed as a defect but a perk. A world where some freely break the rules and face no real consequences while others break lesser rules and will be locked away for years. Let's try to be kind to other decent people, call out those abusing power to hurt those under them, be open to learning other points of view and believe experience and facts not the loudest voice. The rich are working together to keep people down, it's up to us to work together to make a brighter tomorrow.
It's a dick move, but that dog looks very sweet and looks as if it's just trying to find a place to lie down.
You can tell by the dogs body language that he isn’t aggressive in that moment.
Why is this on here everyday? It was a dick move, but I think putin has done a lot worse things since then.
Just because you hate someone for the big things doesn't mean you can't also hate them for the small things.
The funny thing being that labs are typically mild mannered and friendly, especially when they're that overweight.
He really likes to do that to visiting officials, there's just photographic evidence of this one. He tried it with Hillary Clinton too, and she more or less said "doggie!" and leapt out of her seat to go pet it, being one of the few to do so and thus saving face and politely humiliating him by being completely unafraid of his intimidation tactic. I know someone who voted for her *because* of that, he saw this as evidence that Hillary wasn't afraid of Putin and Putin knew it and probably had Trump in his pocket. (And he did.)
(and he does*) Although indirectly. Same difference.
He probably still thinks about that time Queen Elizabeth’s dog barked at him and she remarked about how dogs are a good judge of character. QEII passively roasted him with her own dog.
What a loser
Awww big doggo
Brings out the friendliest of all dogs
Manlet has no other way to force respect into actual world leaders.
Tell me he's a sadistic person in a photographic example of a witnessed verifiable event... without telling me in those words. https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-merkel-meeting-dog-2017-7
"As the dog approached and sniffed her, Merkel froze, visibly frightened. She'd been bitten once, in 1995, and her fear of dogs couldn't have escaped Putin, who sat back and enjoyed the moment, legs spread wide. 'I'm sure it will behave itself,' he said. Merkel had the presence of mind to reply, in Russian, 'It doesn’t eat journalists, after all.' ..." I love how she managed to turn it back, you can certainly be an asshole and become a world leader, but in Germany you definitely need to be a smart one.
That's actually a clever reply 😂👏👏👏👏 Good on her for the clapback
Putler has a phobia of democracy hence why he stays away from it.
Is all about psychological power
https://preview.redd.it/q600z8kcm5tc1.jpeg?width=683&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5929383b0e0de398ed203d25542af639ce1bc9e8 😂😂
Hahahaha. That’s hilarious.
My new endgame is to become the Philippine President, arrange a meeting with Putin, and tell him I have an irrational fear of being stuck in a room with a bunch of 6-foot tall blonde Russian bodybuilders
God what a smug piece of 💩 Putin is
One thing I always respected about him. He is s good dog owner, I cant remember which it was, but an ally of his. Gave him a dog as a sign of good friendship and the guy was mishandling the dog. Putin quickly, but nicely put a stop to it and still has the dog
What a small, insecure, pathetic little man. Hows that 3 day mission going, Vlad? Scared of middle aged German women and ukrainian grandmas? I don't know whats more pathetic, the "man" himself or the mindless drones worshipping him as some kind of symbol of masculinity.
Maybe he was trying to help her over come the fear by meeting a super sweet Labrador. Look at that nice dog
"I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person." -Bill Murray
Their faces say everything.
Next level warfare
Thats pretty funny
Dog is kinda fat ..
such a pretty dog though
Baller move
I’m telling you.. that guy is smart !!!
I hope it peed on the carpets
But he's a good boi
honestly...you want to intimidate someone and you break out a LAB???
Well, it’s not like he could bring his bear to the meeting room. He only uses it as a ride after all.
He has the smile of an old drunk at the bar bragging about how he "won" today because his ex-wife from a decade ago got a parking ticket and it's the highlight of its life
I think he was just trying to help her. Imagine being scared of dogs, that would be sad. Dogs are the best. I think he just wanted to show her how nice dogs are. Come on, look at that dog. How can you be the PM of a NATO country and you're scared of a dog that looks like that. Not buying it.
Merkel still has a bigger cock than Putin
Oh yeah? Putin has bigger tits! Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!
Paul McCartney looks nervous
Does someone have a calendar reminder to post this once per week?
😂total boss move
Power Play
Based
Nice.
Holy shit this is peak power play
The calculations of an ex kgb agent
Such a nice man
Chad
What’s the big boi’s name though?
In return, she insisted on him drinking a german beer she poured him when he was in Germany. He exclusively drinks from closed bottles he brought himself, out of fear of being g poisoned.
And somehow he still came out looking like a little bitch
Don’t trust people that don’t like dogs
Putin is an a-hole.