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Russian Foreign Minister Curses Saudis, Calls Them Imbeciles
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov prompted a wave of social media buzz this week after being filmed swearing under his breath during a press conference in Moscow with his Saudi counterpart.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov prompted a wave of social media buzz this week after being filmed swearing under his breath during a press conference in Moscow with his Saudi counterpart.
Lavrov and Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubier met Tuesday to discuss how to resolve the worsening Syrian civil war, and the fate of President Bashar al-Assad. The two men disagreed how to deal with the embattled president, as Russia believes Assad, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, should be involved in a coalition against the Islamic State, but Saudi Arabia wants him removed from power.
While the Saudi top diplomat spoke, Lavrov was seen shaking his head, adjusting his glasses, and muttering to himself, “[expletive] imbeciles,” according to translators, reported CNBC.
Lavrov said the two top diplomats agreed on steps to help the Syrian government and opposition groups discuss the future of the country.
Russian and Iranian officials are persuading Saudi Arabia and the United States to realize that fighting terrorism in the region is more important than ousting Assad, The New York Times reported this week.
Jubeir insisted after his meeting with Lavrov that “there is no place for Assad in the future of Syria.”
According to United Nations estimates, the Syrian civil war has killed over 200,000 people since it began over four years ago.
23 Comments on "Russian Foreign Minister Curses Saudis, Calls Them Imbeciles"
dissident on Thu, 13th Aug 2015 10:43 pm
This story is total BS. He mumbled at one of the reporters.
Cute how the western media uses the fact that the typical western media consumer would not be able to understand the language to brazenly lie. Lavrov was right on the mark.
Makati1 on Thu, 13th Aug 2015 10:54 pm
How many of us have NOT cursed under our breath when someone makes what we think is a stupid remark? How many times did YOU want to curse when your boss said something that you thought was stupid and it affected your job? I have done it many times in 50 years. We are human. Remember “Fuck the EU!” Nuland?
But, look at the sources and wonder if it actually happened? The US does NOT want Russia to move in on their territory. The US NGOs have been tossed out of Russia for trying to cause chaos, and the US is not happy about that. More and more countries are getting smart and doing the same.
If the world lasts long enough, the US could be forced into isolation like before WW1. Can’t happen? It can happen in a relative heartbeat! When it cannot afford it’s military and 800+ bases, it will be forced to contract back into its 50 states. The sooner the better!
theedrich on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 12:51 am
“According to United Nations estimates, the Syrian civil war has killed over 200,000 people since it began over four years ago.”
And according to George Friedman of StratFor, in “Debating the Morality of Hiroshima” (Geopolitical Weekly AUGUST 11, 2015), “On the night of March 9, 1945, 279 B-29s conducted an incendiary bombing attack on Tokyo that destroyed more than 40 square kilometers (15 square miles) of the city and killed an estimated 100,000 people.”
Hmmmm. 100K people in a single night, versus 200K in two years. George, by the way, thinks that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a good idea, because the Japs were “evil.”
Never mind, of course, that the U.S. itself started the Syrian “civil” war (not to mention the U.S. arms shipment departing Libya for Syria and its rebel forces under Hotflash Hillary’s direction a few hours before our Libyan ambassador and his guards were killed in Benghazi). Or the other false-flag tricks that were executed in Syria by America or its Levantine accomplices. Whatever one thinks of Lavrov, his frustration is understandable against this backdrop.
theedrich on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 12:57 am
Whoops. Make that “200K in FOUR years.”
radon1 on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 1:41 am
Absolute rubbish. He didn’t say anything about Saudis. He said, literally, “@#$!, I hate this”. It could be about anything.
Nony on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 1:50 am
I’m imagining what Greg mutters when he reads one of my comments.
😉
GregT on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 2:04 am
I’m imagining that Nony spends his evening masterbating to internet porn yet again, because no self respecting female has any desire to be anywhwere near him.
You could always try a prostitute Nony, but any self respecting crack whore probably wouldn’t touch your sorry dick either. Loser.
Nony on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 2:29 am
You’re so cute, Greggy boy. I want to pat your little head. Don’t get mad dude.
Apneaman on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 2:33 am
Lavrov, highly intelligent highly capable diplomat. We use to have some of those in the west. Actually we still have capable people, but they are not wanted. Our new neo con mentality thinks negotiating is unacceptable. All successful empires were proficient with the carrot and the stick. All stick and no carrot drives ones competitors to unite – BRICS, etc.
Davy on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 7:11 am
I admire Lavrov. I am tiered of politically correct. Bring on leaders that tell it how it is. We are so friggen caught up in the wrong morality that we are a paradox. Folks this is a paradigm shift of right is wrong and wrong is right paradox at a species level. No, I am not calling into question timeless values and morality. I am calling into question our cultural narrative. In a small way we see this with the current US political circus we call the presidential race. Maybe this is why Trump is scoring points with the general sheeples. The sheeples don’t know why but they are liking straight talk. The sheeples are subconsciously getting sick of propaganda, marketing, and told what is politically correct when it ain’t. The sheeples see failure and are being told all is well by the cornucopian establishment. Less educated people are not necessarily dumb. In some sense they are smarter than our highly educated academics that are deceived by their intellect. Wow be to the academics and establishment if the mass of sheeples becomes angry or spooked.
joe on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 10:38 am
Peak oil will make all these wars and Arab springs look like foolishness. People won’t care who is what religion when they have to grow their own vegetables to live another season.
GregT on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 11:28 am
People in general don’t have a clue as to why they are unable to feed themselves. They will do what people have always done, they will find ways to blame their misery on other groups of people, and they will slaughter each other.
jjhman on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 7:37 pm
I don’t know what is worse: the total nanality of this story or the total banality of the anti-American nonsense in the comments. Comparing Hiroshima to the Syrian civil war isn’t apples and oranges, it’s apples and pig tails.
Yep, those damned US NGOs, tools of the CIA all of them. USAID, for example, talking about human rights and providing health and environmental support.
Bloomer on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 10:42 pm
Competing religious ideology is the root of the violence in the Middle East. Shiites oppose the Sunnis and even within their own religions there are sects that hate one another.
Neither Russian or the Western Nations can solve the Middle East conflicts. The Islamic people need to figure their own shit out and play peacefully together in the giant sandbox.
In the meantime, I am in favour of providing humanity aid. However, escalating the violence by exporting bombs and bullets does nothing by add to the destabilization of the Middle East.
Makati1 on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 10:53 pm
Bloomer, the ME was relatively quiet until Bush invaded Iraq for money. The Military Industrial Complex has been getting fat ever since. They don’t want peace in the ME or anywhere. War is the largest export of the US these days.
Bloomer on Fri, 14th Aug 2015 11:34 pm
The invasion of Iraq did add to the destabilization to the ME no argument there. But prior to that was the Iraq Iran war. It was a bloody war in which hundred of thousands of people died or were wounded.
Much of the todays unrest in the Middle East, is the continuation of the legacy of that religious war and other historical grievances and differences in biblical interpretations.
Apneaman on Sat, 15th Aug 2015 1:17 am
The Iran–Iraq War was over in 1988 idiot. In 2003 Iraq was not in the least bit unstable compared to today. It has been turned into rubble strewn dystopian landscape with many women and children killed and mangled – all based on lies and greed and warped ideology. You are trying to defend the indefensible. It’s like me saying because you and your girl friend were arguing anyway it makes it all right for me to stomp your stupid face, rape her and take all you shit. C’mon, everyone knows you guys had a legacy of arguing and fighting. You deserved it.
Bloomer on Sun, 16th Aug 2015 10:27 pm
Peace my ass, Sadamm Hussien was a brutal dictator was killed and torture his own people. Read a book moron and stopped spewing crap.
apneaman on Sun, 16th Aug 2015 11:13 pm
What is the name of the book you recommend that lays out the case for a righteous invasion and the killing of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi women and kids? I’m guessing it’s a colouring book put out by Fox news.
BTW, your girlfriend said she liked it.
GregT on Sun, 16th Aug 2015 11:43 pm
Thanks Apnea. It really is amazing how many people are completely incapable of thinking for themselves. They’ll believe anything they’re told to believe. I often wonder how they get up in the mornings, and tie their own shoelaces.
apneaman on Mon, 17th Aug 2015 12:25 am
Excuse me!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gaQ0qU4fihg/VdEP-yv-POI/AAAAAAABh7g/7ZLqHWMPLsY/s1600/11058595_897798926973634_4727825991622445926_n.jpg
GregT on Mon, 17th Aug 2015 1:26 am
Brilliant Apnea!
Keep those links coming. Some of us are actually paying attention.
Apneaman on Mon, 17th Aug 2015 12:54 pm
More evidence that the world is sick of the empire of bad faith. Another of many self inflicted wounds.
Stung by the NSA’s reach, Brazil and Germany prepare for closer ties
They’re making a big public appearance: Next week, Chancellor Merkel and half of her cabinet are visiting Brazil for their first-ever government consultations. Brazil is now the third most powerful emerging nation.
http://www.dw.com/en/stung-by-the-nsas-reach-brazil-and-germany-prepare-for-closer-ties/a-18648528