• @[email protected]
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    1268 months ago

    So Poutine wanted to weaken NATO, ends up adding countries, including one that has been neutral for an incredibly long time.

    • DarkThoughts
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      628 months ago

      Sweden has a strong military industry too and Finnland is literally right at Russia’s border. Putin is a master strategist.

    • @John_McMurray
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      178 months ago

      Your spellcheck outed you as a Canadian

      • Magnor
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        88 months ago

        Side note, this is also the French spelling of Putin. So you can eat Poutine while being mad at Poutine (I’ll let you guess which is which, unless you’re a cannibal then everything goes TBF).

        • @dlpkl
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          58 months ago

          Sorry, french changes the spelling of proper nouns?

          • @[email protected]
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            88 months ago

            The last name of the president of Russia is Пу́тин. Since people can’t read that without knowing Cyrillic, we need a way to map Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. However, neither Cyrillic nor Latin script have universal pronunciations: the phonetic value of letters change depending on the language. This leads to the romanization of a name being different depending what the source and target language is. Пу́тин is Putin for Russian-to-English, but Poutine for Russian-to-French. They’re both equally correct, and neither is a change from the other.

            • @John_McMurray
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              18 months ago

              I feel like this is advanced trollery, as “poutine” is a French Canadian word, not French French, and pronounced quite differently than Putin.

          • Magnor
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            28 months ago

            Yep, especially when they come from different alphabets. But we used to do it for English names too (mostly medieval ones though).

        • jaxxed
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          18 months ago

          I thought it was “putain”

          • Magnor
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            Nah, that is actually a slang for sex workers, who do not deserve to be associated with Putin.

    • @someguy3
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      118 months ago

      Cheese curds have nothing to do with this.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        You’re right, at least cheese curds get thrown out when the go bad. Kinda like what Putin does with critics.

        • @someguy3
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          [Pours hot gravy on Putin] “A crown for King.”

        • @Death_Equity
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          48 months ago

          Cheese curds go bad? I guess I never let them last long enough to find out.

    • Resol van Lemmy
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      28 months ago

      I never knew the Russian president was actually a Canadian dish in disguise.

      In fact, come to think of it, why don’t the Russians simply eat him? If he’s that delicious then surely they gotta dig in.

    • @[email protected]
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      -168 months ago

      Yeah, he is either stupid or desperate. It does worry me how centralized power balance in the World has become over US controlling most of the conflicts and countries in the World.

      • @dejected_warp_core
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        48 months ago

        Yeah, he is either stupid or desperate.

        I’ll pick the middle option: Putin is high on his own supply.

        The man made it clear that dissent will be met with swift and gruesome consequences. This is a sure-fire recipe for surrounding yourself with yes-men that are not smart enough to get the hell out. And BTW, that’s always a career where everyone’s last promotion is “pavement inspector”, and training starts immediately at an open 6th floor window. So there’s some cocky, can’t-guage-risk-for-a-damn people mixed in there too. The result is a bunch of decisions from the head-of-state that only make sense between those in his court, and fail to hold up to scrutiny outside those walls.

      • @TheFonz
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        28 months ago

        How is the US controlling conflicts and countries?

        • @[email protected]
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          -88 months ago

          By CIA coups, puppet governments, military funding, weapon supplies to insurgents or to the governments, sanctions, etc.

          • @TheFonz
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            38 months ago

            These are not arguments. It is a list of fun buzzwords. Do you have anything specific or concrete to talk about? Am I talking to ChatGPT? I need to know! Are you my skynet daddy?