Yes folks, he’s at it again….
Vladimir Putin climbed into a three-seat submersible craft Tuesday to check out an ancient sunken ship found recently in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea — the peninsula annexed by Russia last year from Ukraine…
On previous trips deep underwater, Putin has explored the Gulf of Finland and Lake Baikal in submersibles. He also went scuba diving in the Kerch Strait that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, where he brought up fragments of ancient Greek jugs, or amphorae, that his spokesman later admitted had been planted.
(The Associated Press, August 18, 2015)
Mind you, chances are that, just as they planted those ancient Greek jugs, his enabling minions sank this ancient sunken ship to facilitate this ego trip.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (60) has become an international laughing stock for staging photo ops to make himself look more like an action hero than a political leader. Not least because so many of his stunts, like pretending to escort migrating cranes in a glider, make him look more like Johnny English than James Bond
(“Putin Divorce Dents Public Armor,” The iPINIONS Journal, June 12, 2013)
But his aides dare not tell Putin how stupid his he-man stunts make him look. For, like aides who dare not tell Kim Jong-un how weak his military threats make him look, they fear losing their jobs … or much worse.
All the same, better to have them live out their chest-thumping fantasies through harmless theatrics than deadly maneuvers – like test-launching nuclear missiles (Lil’ Kim), or invading neighboring countries (Pootie).
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