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Putin Praises Obama’s “Strength” Front Page Magazine, Daniel Greenfield, April 14, 2016

This is A+ trolling. Count on a KGB guy to take Obama’s “weakness is strength” meme and turn it around on him.

“That’s very good that my colleague possesses the courage to make such statements.”

“Barack, as a senator, criticized the administration for its actions in Iraq. But, as president, he allowed a mistake to happen, he has said it himself, in Libya. Not everyone can do that. They snap at him from different sides over that but only a strong man could have done that.”

A very strong man. Let’s get some context on that.

Obama dismissed the notion that Putin was acting “out of strength,” telling the San Diego station the annexation of Crimea was an action taken “out of weakness.”

So Putin turned Obama’s contention that weakness is strength and strength is weakness by praising his weakness as strength. Does Putin mean this? This is a regime whose propagandists depict Obama on toilet paper. But this throws in a dose of mockery and some trolling that Obama is unlikely to get as he’s eating up the flattery.

Now if Putin does encounter a strong US president, he’ll call him weak.

When asked whether he regretted Obama’s leaving office, Putin said, “We all go sooner or later, probably. It’s pointless to regret.”

I bet.

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