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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 126 points 11 months ago (5 children)

So Poutine wanted to weaken NATO, ends up adding countries, including one that has been neutral for an incredibly long time.

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 62 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Sweden has a strong military industry too and Finnland is literally right at Russia's border. Putin is a master strategist.

[–] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Dude really read a history book about Hitler fighting a one front war and somehow turning it into a three front war and said “Hold my beer”

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your comment reminded me of this video, highly worth a watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9Phc9ArpU

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[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Your spellcheck outed you as a Canadian

[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Side note, this is also the French spelling of Putin. So you can eat Poutine while being mad at Poutine (I'll let you guess which is which, unless you're a cannibal then everything goes TBF).

[–] dlpkl@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Sorry, french changes the spelling of proper nouns?

[–] ahnesampo@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The last name of the president of Russia is Пу́тин. Since people can’t read that without knowing Cyrillic, we need a way to map Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. However, neither Cyrillic nor Latin script have universal pronunciations: the phonetic value of letters change depending on the language. This leads to the romanization of a name being different depending what the source and target language is. Пу́тин is Putin for Russian-to-English, but Poutine for Russian-to-French. They’re both equally correct, and neither is a change from the other.

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I feel like this is advanced trollery, as "poutine" is a French Canadian word, not French French, and pronounced quite differently than Putin.

[–] NotAtWork@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

So does English, in Russian Putin's name is Путин.

[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 2 points 11 months ago

Yep, especially when they come from different alphabets. But we used to do it for English names too (mostly medieval ones though).

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Nah, that is actually a slang for sex workers, who do not deserve to be associated with Putin.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, and it made me kinda hungry too...

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cheese curds have nothing to do with this.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You're right, at least cheese curds get thrown out when the go bad. Kinda like what Putin does with critics.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

[Pours hot gravy on Putin] "A crown for King."

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Cheese curds go bad? I guess I never let them last long enough to find out.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I never knew the Russian president was actually a Canadian dish in disguise.

In fact, come to think of it, why don't the Russians simply eat him? If he's that delicious then surely they gotta dig in.