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[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 125 points 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 months ago (2 children)

Your spellcheck outed you as a Canadian

[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 8 points 8 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 8 months ago (3 children)

Sorry, french changes the spelling of proper nouns?

[–] ahnesampo@sopuli.xyz 8 points 8 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 8 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.

[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] NotAtWork@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago

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

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cheese curds have nothing to do with this.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 8 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.