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Putin Playing Chess (Hilarious Picture, Russian Point of View)

It doesn’t take long for Russian humor to tear into the pronouncements of American lawmakers.

When the Crimean crisis began turning white hot, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers, a Republican from Michigan, lambasted President Barak Obama in perfect partisan tradition for being outmaneuvered by Russian President Vladimir Putin. It culminated with this somewhat clunky sound bite:  “Putin is playing chess and I think we are playing marbles….”

One of the many responses from Russia came two days later with this hilarious and deliciously photoshopped picture of a steely-eyed, cunning Putin, one hand in his pocked, playing chess against his furiously thinking and frustrated-looking foes, all lined up on the other side:

  • President Obama (you can just about see him cussing under his breath)
  • British Prime Minister Cameron (worried about the giant sucking sound that the City of London would hear as the Russian money is bailing out)
  • German Chancellor Merkel (“Oh mein Gott, how am I going to get out of this?” she seems to be thinking)
  • French President Hollande (brain gridlocked, lips pressed into a thin line)
  • Other luminaries receding into the background, all trying to think their way out of this debacle.

 

So, Elizabeth Wahl, the RT news anchor who famously quit her job “somewhat arbitrarily” while on air…

Read on at Testosterone Pit.  View original post.

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