Another example of Putin's "altered state of reality":
He was quoted as telling the EU President of the EU Commission recently that "he could take Kiev in two weeks".
Now his press manager is attempting to walk it back with the following RIA press release from today.
Not sure just how a Russian/Italian interpreter could have gotten the wrong translation of "I can take Kiev in two weeks"---that is actually rather straight forward and hard to misinterpret.
Anyway--another shinning example of Putin's "altered state of reality".
Kind of goes to the Russian recent critique of the US Ukrainian Ambassador stating via a Tweet--"Russian had invaded the Ukraine"---Russia complained that it was not the proper channel for such comments coming from an Ambassador.
MOSCOW, September 2 (RIA Novosti) – A quote about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apparent ability “to take Kiev in two weeks,” by European Commission President Jose Manual Barroso earlier in the week, was taken out of context and had a completely different meaning, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said Tuesday.
NOTE: He seems to not want to then state what the completely different meaning was actually to be---notice he forgot that piece of information in the article?
“This is incorrect, this goes beyond the framework of diplomatic practice. This is unbecoming of a serious political figure,” Ushakov said, referring to Barroso’s comment.
NOTE: Not sure what an be taken out of content with the statement--"I can take Kiev in two weeks"---also not sure why the Russian are all of a sudden so darn emphatic on what diplomacy/diplomatic practice is these days since they even declare satellite photos of Russian troops/artillery to be "lies from a video game".
Earlier this week, Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported that after Barroso’s telephone conversation with Putin, the European Commission president claimed that the Russian leader said he could take Ukraine in two weeks.
The Kremlin later responded that Putin’s words were misinterpreted and had completely different meaning.
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