Vladimir Putin rambled ‘you have to live for something to die for’ and seemed unable to stop his leg twitching again during his second bizarre speech in a week.
The Russian president spoke in a conference for young ecologists while tapping the armrest of his chair which he also appeared to grasp for support, MailOnline reported.
Five days ago, he giggled as he sat and told a room full of schoolchildren aged nine to 12 a clanger of a joke about having a ‘rubber bum’, while sitting slumped and talking barely above a whisper.
The surreal appearances will fuel rumours the warmonger is seriously ill, with reports claiming he is suffering everything from cancer to Parkinson’s – while others have put his bloated face down to the use of mood-altering steroids.
During his speech yesterday, he hailed Russia a superpower by declaring it was the world’s true ‘Land of the Rising Sun’.
Slouching in his chair, he croaked: ‘Our neighbour Japan is called the Country of the Rising Sun.
‘But further east from Japan is Kamchatka, or Sakhalin [Russia’s largest island]. Even further east is New Zealand. And further east from New Zealand is Chukotka.
‘And then there is only a 60-kilometre-wide strait to America. In this sense the Country of the Rising Sun is Russia.’
He added to his audience in the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky: ‘There is an expression, and whoever told me about it, I promised I would reproduce it out loud in public sometime. You have to live for something to die for.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser thatsupports HTML5video
‘As strange as it may seem in your humanitarian field, this is something worth living for.’
Last week he told schoolchildren in the exclave territory of Kaliningrad they need to ‘be motivated to reach your goal’.
When a boy wearing a red military-type uniform asked Putin a question, he told him he needed to launch into ‘hard work’, and added before he started chuckling to himself: ‘All this together is very important.
‘Working hard is a talent in itself. It’s not just, excuse me, a rubber bum.’
Putin, who has also recently been spotted with a limp and ‘numb’ right arm, has had five known medical-related disappearances since 2012, including in February 2018 when he went missing in the midst of an election campaign while suffering ‘a cold’.
In September 2021, paranoid Putin – known to have food tasters for poison – went into ‘self-isolation’ and held all his events via video link.
As Putin’s bombardment of Ukraine continues to falter, with Russia still being pushed back by Kyiv’s forces, the country announced its Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to Europe will stay shut indefinitely.
Russia was due to reopen the pipeline on Saturday but has blamed Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine for creating ‘problems with gas supply’.
European countries have branded the cut-off blackmail and are frantically searching for alternative sources of gas for winter.
Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at [email protected].
For more stories like this, check our news page.
Source: Read Full Article
