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You are here: Home / Foreign Affairs / Late Night Open Thread: Dreams of A Failed Global Tyrant

Late Night Open Thread: Dreams of A Failed Global Tyrant

by Anne Laurie|  January 10, 20221:45 am| 33 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Russia

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Hey, wanna see how a 1960 Soviet comic imagined the year 2017?
You are in luck… pic.twitter.com/LxKXTrgUcJ

— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) January 8, 2022

While his American puppet rants about revolution from his Miami dacha, Vladimir Putin nurses his own dreams of vengeance…

Are they still eagerly awaiting the day when they’ll get Alaska back or has reality set in?

— (((Daniel Timm))) (@dtimm53217) January 8, 2022

Putin's favorite band is Lyube, practitioners of gangster/patriotic pop. Their most popular song is "Alaska", which commands America to return it or else.
It also blames Catherine the Great for selling it, despite its happening 70 yrs after her death. Because women, I guess. https://t.co/splJYrgDCp

— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) January 8, 2022

Here are some more.
Don't play the fool, America
You're probably bored overseas
Siberia and Alaska are but two coasts
Broads, horses, expanse of the road

(Alaska is not near Siberia. This song is as geographically illiterate as it is historically and grammatically)

— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) January 8, 2022

It seems like a bad satire to my American ears, but there’s a certain logic to Lyuba as the Russian version of Toby Keith’s We’ll put a boot in yer ass, it’s the American way...

And here is the original video of the song. The first five seconds really tell you everything you need to know.
The band's lead vocal, Rastorguyev, has never served in the military but has never been seen wearing anything other than faux military garb.https://t.co/jmuCbV3PU3

— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) January 8, 2022

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33Comments

  1. 1.

    Starboard Tack

    January 10, 2022 at 1:54 am

    Putin wants to reassemble the USSR without the fiction of Communism.

  2. 2.

    The Dangerman

    January 10, 2022 at 2:01 am

    Would Russia settle for just the Palin Family?

  3. 3.

    Nettoyeur

    January 10, 2022 at 2:05 am

    Now that Putin’s plans and paranoias are resembling those of Stalin’s last demented years , maybe it’s time to trot out the old Evil Empire epithet. Seriously: (1) pretty much any non state media is required to label itself as a “foreign agent”, and lots of these “agents” are detained or under house arrest (2) resident foreigners age 7 and. up will be required to submit to testing for STD, AIDS, COVID, TB….. with required X-rays; (3) the epidemic of people mysteriously falling out of apartment windows continues; (4) Russian soldiers are now occupying parts of three former Soviet republics; (5) Putin is demanding free reign in any neighboring countries he thinks should be part of Russia’s buffer zone; (6) the CSTO, is like its Warsaw Pact predecessor, the only military alliance that specializes in invading its own members. This is huge blow to those of us with ties to Russia of one sort or another, who have been hoping it would continue transition to being a more or less normal country. I learned Russian almost 50 years ago, and used it extensively in my scientific career. I never paid much attention to Ukraine, thinking of it as a quaint Little Russia dependent on Moscow for fuel. Now I am trying to learn a little Ukrainian (which is similar to, but definitely different from, Russian) just out of spite.

  4. 4.

    Starboard Tack

    January 10, 2022 at 2:07 am

    @The Dangerman: We would deliver.

  5. 5.

    Starboard Tack

    January 10, 2022 at 2:14 am

    @Nettoyeur: Except for a decade or so after the Soviet Union and a few years after WW1, Russia has only been an absolute monarchy or some type of dictatorship. Not much history of “normal”.

  6. 6.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 10, 2022 at 2:14 am

    @Starboard Tack: Putin wants to be Czar of the Russian Empire.

  7. 7.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 10, 2022 at 2:14 am

    @Starboard Tack:

    Putin wants to reassemble the USSR without the fiction of Communism. 

    So fascism instead of communism.

  8. 8.

    Starboard Tack

    January 10, 2022 at 2:17 am

    @mrmoshpotato: So the plutocrats can thieve in the open.

  9. 9.

    gene108

    January 10, 2022 at 2:32 am

    @Starboard Tack:

    Putin wants to reassemble the USSR without the fiction of Communism.

    So did the Soviet Union, after the civil war. Ukraine, Poland, and some other places had declared their independence from Russia.

    Edit: To be clearer, the USSR wanted to re-establish the borders of Czarist Russia, after the civil war. Ukraine, Poland, and maybe other places declared their independence after the Czar fell.

  10. 10.

    gene108

    January 10, 2022 at 2:39 am

    It always amazes me how bad we are at thinking about innovation, especially how the 20th century viewed what the 21st century would be like.

    The Soviet comic from 1960 about what 2017 will be like is so similar to US ideas of man completely taming nature, and having machines cook for us.

  11. 11.

    Keith P.

    January 10, 2022 at 3:05 am

    It sounds like a shitty version of “Trans Continental Hustle” by Gogol Bordello.

  12. 12.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 10, 2022 at 3:05 am

    @gene108:

    having machines cook for us.

    Someone doesn’t have an air fryer.

  13. 13.

    opiejeanne

    January 10, 2022 at 3:09 am

    @gene108: We do have machines that cook for us, although we do have to be somewhat involved.

    We have rice cookers, slow cookers, instant pots, food processors, and various other “toys”, and microwave ovens have come a long way and are fairly inexpensive.

  14. 14.

    opiejeanne

    January 10, 2022 at 3:10 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I don’t have one, but I do have a convection oven which, I’m told, does pretty much the same thing.

  15. 15.

    opiejeanne

    January 10, 2022 at 3:12 am

    @Keith P.: Is it wrong of me that I laughed when I read this post and watched just a little bit of the Russian video?

  16. 16.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 10, 2022 at 3:14 am

    @opiejeanne: I got one for Christmas, best thing since sliced bread.

  17. 17.

    Captain C

    January 10, 2022 at 3:16 am

    @gene108:  The Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania) made it out until 1940 when Stalin marched in under the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

  18. 18.

    oldster

    January 10, 2022 at 3:18 am

    I hope he’s a failed tyrant, and he’s a thoroughly despicable person.

    But he did manage to pull off the two biggest intelligence coups in the post-war era:

    1. fomenting England’s exit from the EU, drastically weakening both England and Europe in the process, and
    2. fomenting the election of Trump in the US, thus weakening America and driving it towards internal collapse.

    No foreign meddling that the CIA ever undertook in its heyday was ever anywhere near as profoundly successful as these two black ops. I hope Putin rots in hell, and I hope he starts doing it soon.

  19. 19.

    Captain C

    January 10, 2022 at 3:18 am

    @opiejeanne: That music sounds like early-80s MTV rock with a disco beat interspersed with a Balkan Muzak band.  Then the vocals come in and you add a well-below-replacement-level attempt at Visotsky vocals.

  20. 20.

    Captain C

    January 10, 2022 at 3:26 am

    @Captain C: Also, IIRC, Georgia made it out briefly (1918-21 or so) before being reconquered by the Red Army.

  21. 21.

    burnspbesq

    January 10, 2022 at 4:31 am

    In the words of one of the great 20th century American philosophers, “Oh, bruddah.”

  22. 22.

    Frankensteinbeck

    January 10, 2022 at 4:43 am

    Removed because man, sometimes I just ain’t feelin’ public debate.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    January 10, 2022 at 5:16 am

    Wait, so we’re not open to giving Alaska back to Russia?

  24. 24.

    JWR

    January 10, 2022 at 5:31 am

    Two good interviews from Sunday morn. Both guests talked about Jan 6 and it’s implications going forward. Good stuff. And it’s nice that, since leaving KPFK, the interviews are no longer bound to the one hour limit. w00t!

    Background Briefing: January 9, 2022

    The Homeland Security Election Year Landscape in Which Violence is Expected
    With Michael Greenberger

    Is a New American Civil War Led By Trump the “Ethnic Entrepreneur” Possible or Inevitable?
    With Barbara Walter

  25. 25.

    p.a.

    January 10, 2022 at 5:49 am

    Holy shite!  That was TFG’s plan: give Alaska to Putin, buy Greenland to, I guess in his ‘mind’,  keep a supply of ice in our possession.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    January 10, 2022 at 6:14 am

    “I can see Alaska from my dacha.”

    //

  27. 27.

    Ten Bears

    January 10, 2022 at 6:17 am

    Great artwork. What Dangerman said …

  28. 28.

    sab

    January 10, 2022 at 6:29 am

    @Baud: How would Canadians feel about that?

  29. 29.

    VOR

    January 10, 2022 at 7:18 am

    @sab: Well, Greenland is formally part of the Kingdom of Denmark so not sure Canada has much role here

    ETA: Ah, you meant about Alaska going back to Russia. Yeah, guessing the US is a better neighbor than Russia, at least from a government relations and defense standpoint. Canada would probably prefer the US keep Alaska.

  30. 30.

    debbie

    January 10, 2022 at 7:29 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Then he should man up and apologize for murdering the Czar and his family. //

  31. 31.

    Nettoyeur

    January 10, 2022 at 11:30 am

    @Starboard Tack: yup. Naïve to expect anything else. But US blindness vis a vis Yeltsin sure did not help.

  32. 32.

    phdesmond

    January 10, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    U.S. Senate Alaska Lisa Murkowski Republican
    December 20, 2002 January 3, 2023
    U.S. Senate Alaska Daniel S. Sullivan Republican
    January 3, 2015 January 3, 2027

    One way to get a Democratic majority in the Senate:
    let the Russians annex Alaska!

  33. 33.

    J R in WV

    January 10, 2022 at 1:37 pm

    @oldster: ​
     

    I hope Putin rots in hell, and I hope he starts doing it soon.

    I hope Putin lives to be a very old man, with many of the diseases old men suffer from, for many years. After suffering from gangrene in his limbs, macular degeneration resulting in blindness, an inability to urinate or achieve an erection, diverticulitis, food allergies, and serious paranoia about everyone around him…

    Only THEN he should die, and rot in Hell, forever.

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