So that is the official line: you’re shit, we’re shit, everything’s shit, never try for a better world because it doesn’t exist. That is not only bleak, I think it’s also the working title of everyRussian novel ever written.
2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, inCNN[1]:
“Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to theRussian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said.
A grim smile plays about Tarzan’s lips. At least Rokoff will be cheated. How mad he will be! And death will be more merciful than he could have hoped for at the hands of theRussian.
1983,Peace and Security in the Atlantic and Pacific Regions, page69:
But be that as it may: the Great Russian chauvinist Voznesenskii knew exactly how best to touch upon the asiaphobic nerve of his fellow-countrymen, how to stimulate the deep-rooted irrational fears of theRussians of peril looming from Asia, and how to turn those fears against China.
2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, inCNN[2]:
“I believe theRussians – the inhumane behavior of Russia does not justify it to get the fruits of the international community,” Wyden told CNN.
(countable) An ethnic Russian; a member of the East Slavic ethnic group which is native to, and constitutes the majority of the population of, Russia.
2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, inInternational Law Studies,US Naval War College[3], volume91, number361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page393:
The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speakingRussian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.196
Ok, I do think I am starting to get used to it, but you have to admit, if youve[sic] been juggling bags and then start jugglingRussians, they feel sooo lopsided to juggle at first!