Putin’s Annual Address Accuses West Of Trying To Sideline Russia:

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin vowed Thursday to fix Russia’s economic woes within two years by diversifying away from its heavy reliance on oil and gas and voiced confidence that the plummeting ruble will soon recover.

Russia is really getting beat up big time economically on account of their poor leadership. Sounds very familiar to me.

It looks like the Judo practitioner that just got slammed to the mat, pinned and lost the match.

According to the Judo Guy (his friends call him Val) the western countries have caused this disruption in his economy because they want to commandeer the oil in Siberia. Sounds reasonable to me.

One thing Val forgot. When a person is a bull-shitter they have to be a good one.

A nun once told me that empty barrels make the loudest noise. I don’t know if she was referring to oil barrels or wine barrels. In the Judo Guys case we will call them oil barrels.

I wonder just how benevolent Val is? He is reportedly worth about 70 billion dollars.  He had a paper route when he was a kid and saved his rubles.

If it were me, I would definitely take care of my countrymen, especially being that he got them into this financial jackpot.