re: #165 Targetpractice

Better question is “How, if the Russian Federation continues to insist that the rebels were responsible for the chemical weapon strikes, did they obtain Russian-made weapons to perform those strikes?” I’m not sure Putin feels so safe in his position now that he’d point the finger at one his own customers and accuse them of being the guilty party.

Well one thing’s sure, the people who take their cues from Putin can be serious shitheads themselves:

Russia’s parliamentary foreign affairs chief, Alexey Pushkov, left a stinging remark on Twitter after a tragic shooting at the Washington Navy Yard that left several people dead and many others injured on Monday.

“A new shootout at Navy headquarters in Washington - a lone gunman and seven corpses,” Pushkov wrote. “Nobody’s even surprised anymore. A clear confirmation of ‘American exceptionalism.’”

Adding insult to injury, Pushkov followed up with another tweet, writing, “The USA should part with the notion of American exceptionalism. It contradicts the principles of equal rights and smells of political racism.”

Thankfully, the US Embassy’s reply was something other than mealy-mouthed:

But the U.S. Embassy in Russia responded with a tweet of their own, writing, “What’s exceptionalism got to do with it? Why use a tragedy to score political points.”

Mr. Pushkov can go push metal shavings under his fingernails as far as I’m concerned.