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Putin Hosts Lukashenko to Announce Failure of Ukrainian Offensive
Will Lukashenko survive this meeting? And will the ‘siloviki’ buy Putin’s latest spin of the narrative?
Europe’s formerly last dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, is either goofy as hell or just a big dummy who also happens to be a glutton for punishment. Having barely survived two previous close brushes with the Grim Reaper (Putin), he is off again to meet his pimp, Czar Putin, this time in St. Petersburg for some nice stories before beddy-bye on the sidelines of what the Kremlin spin-doctors are trying to call a “summit.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Belarus counterpart Alexander Lukashenko Sunday that an ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive to push back Russian forces from Ukraine has “failed”, according to Russian news agencies.
“There is no counteroffensive,” Lukashenko said, according to the TASS news agency before being interrupted by Putin: “There is one, but it has failed (Ukrainian Counteroffensive Failed).”
Goofy seems to have misspoken and the honest arbiter that Donald Duck tends to be, he spoke up and gave credit where credit is due.
Putin, assuming an air of the coolest 6th-grade punk, affected his best “I am so bored, man” pose in his meeting…
