OLYMPIC 'GAMES': Putin faked catnap in apparent move to insult Ukrainian athletes

Some social media users are speculating as to whether Russian President Vladimir Putin actually fell asleep during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics after he was caught on video dozing on and off.

The Russian president, who is unmistakably the highest profile guest of this year’s events was under close watch during NBC’s broadcast of the winter games as he sat in an isolated section all his lonesome. He appeared to momentarily doze off from exhaustion—or boredom. But not so fast.

A closer look at the situation suggests Putin’s cute little catnap was just a little old fashioned Russian chauvinism from Vladimir’s Lenin’s 1917 playbook, and that the former KGB colonel was playing a little Olympic game of his own.

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Putin knows the cameras are watching. He also knows the U.S. is in an uproar about the recent advancement of Russian forces to the Ukrainian border, and displeased at his opening remarks to China’s President Xi Jinping, praising the People’s Republic while citing “unprecedented” close relations with the communist regime.

When analyzing the facts, closely, the embattled Russian president ‘fell asleep’ at the very moment Ukraine’s athletes came out during the Olympics Opening Ceremony. In a subtle nod of disrespect, he was [apparently] so unimpressed with them instead of cheering or clapping with the rest of the spectators, he dozed off. Putin is no stranger his political theater, however. He has played similar mind games in the past.  

In 2006, he transparently pretended to mourn the murder of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko who exposed Russia for orchestrating the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings as a false flag attack. Fifteen years after Litvinenko was poisoned with a nuclear isotope in London’s Mayfair district, the European Court of Human Rights determined the killing was a Kremlin ordered assassination.

In 2005, while New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was visiting Moscow, Putin stole his NFL Superbowl ring, and then played innocent as if he thought it was a gift, later displaying the jewelry in a Russian museum. Knowing it would probably never be returned, and to avoid political embarrassment with Moscow, the White House suggested Kraft subsequently offer the ring to the Russian president as a goodwill gesture.

The ex-KGB colonel’s latest stunt in Beijing comes in the wake of U.S. President Joe Biden and other western allies’ diplomatic boycott against this year’s Olympics because of the CCP’s human right’s abuses of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities.

Since 2017 more than a million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities have been sent to forced “reeducation camps” that include compulsory abortion and sterilization while another 80,000 have been conscripted into slave labor in factories, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

The former KGB colonel has dismissed all that however, and instead attended the games while vocally praising the Chinese communist regime. Putin said on Russian television that relations between Moscow and Beijing “are developing in a progressive way with a spirit of friendship and strategic partnership… They have indeed become unprecedented.”