Four sources within the government and the Kremlin told The Moscow Times that security officials promoted this shocking and "risky" episode in the media to convince Russians that their leader is not hiding behind others, but is also supposedly taking risks and making sacrifices.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago

That's hilarious.

This is a guy who has literal body doubles.

He's a fucking coward and doesn't even trust people in the same room as him.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a PR spin.

I imagine the conversation going something like this:

"Holy shit, the Ukrainians almost hit the presidential helicopter. This makes us look real bad.

Okay, here's what we do. We tell everybody that it was us, and it was totally on purpose so they don't realize how close the Ukrainians came to winning the war"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I hope they got steven seagal a role in this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

If they stuffed him full of taco bell and lit his ass on fire, he could be a missile.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Lol, that would awesome except I'm not sure how he could fight from his chair wile Putin is in a helicopter. I guess he could be fighting the air traffic controllers or the ground crew from a chair? This script will probably have to go through a few revisions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Karate-chopping drones like the hero he is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

All while sitting in a chair, in a night club.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, he's playing the heli. Spins his ponytail to take off, putin's right there cozy up his ass.