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2naSalit

(92,677 posts)
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 07:10 PM Jul 2024

"HE IS DONE": Putin Reached 'DEAD END DILEMMA'. Z-Veterans Receive THE WEIRDEST AWARDS




Russian Z-Heroes who returned from Ukraine received probably the most ridiculous welcome and awards. Was it something they fought for? Rusians attempted to breach Sumy region, but Ukrainians were able to repel the attack. According to Dmitriy Medvedev, Russian has some sort of a 10-year plan for Ukraine. But in my opinion, this will become Putin's biggest challenge for the next decade.

0:00 The best "award" for Z-Heroes
1:26 Z-Army tried to breach Sumy region
3:09 Putin's new biggest challenge

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"HE IS DONE": Putin Reached 'DEAD END DILEMMA'. Z-Veterans Receive THE WEIRDEST AWARDS (Original Post) 2naSalit Jul 2024 OP
Bookmarking for something positive MontanaMama Jul 2024 #1
Done? Mike Nelson Jul 2024 #2
He uses this phrase a lot. 2naSalit Jul 2024 #3

Mike Nelson

(10,283 posts)
2. Done?
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 07:15 PM
Jul 2024

... I think he's probably waiting to see the US election results. If Crooked Donald wins, the "cease fire" will end with him winning the newly occupied land. After a couple years or regrouping, he will invade again.

2naSalit

(92,677 posts)
3. He uses this phrase a lot.
Thu Jul 18, 2024, 08:14 PM
Jul 2024

And it is a cultural figure of speech thing as far as I can tell. I say that because he uses a number of "sayings" that my dear friend from eastern Europe used to say in conversation. I suspect they say them because some languages, like the Slavic languages, have fewer words and conditional phrases for reference than American English does, mostly because we appropriate a lot of language culture from others.

So my friend used to say these all the time;

I am dying!

He is done!

Means nothing!

It's over, because ...

This is it, it's done and similar exclamations, it's kind of like people from the northern north east have a specific way of speaking to each other that they do not use with people from outside the region. To other people we appear to be yelling at each other like we were going to fight, to us, it's like the high school secret chant or something, it's weird, it's cultural.

Seriously, I see his repeated use of these phrases as that sort of statement. The intonation is different from the we interpret it in our environment. I guess I'm used to it and it doesn't bother me.

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