#WhereIsPutin? The Search Continues on the Internet

#WhereIsPutin? The Search Continues on the Internet

Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn’t been seen in public for over a week now, and speculation continues as to his whereabouts, especially in light of Russia’s recent Soviet history. Heck, the man himself is a former KGB apparatchik.  

Granted, Putin is not widely loved, and Americans generally aren’t wringing their hands about his mysterious absence. But that hasn’t stopped the speculation.

One creative soul posted this cartoon:

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The Russian website Sputnik International, trying to be serious/not serious, listed the top five “ridiculous” theories and debunked each one. They include the following:

  • He’s dead.
  • He has cancer. He hurt his back. He had a stroke. Maybe the flu.
  • He is witnessing the birth of his love child.
  • He was overthrown in a coup.

And the number one theory listed by Sputnik:

  • He’s binge watching House of Cards.

Of course someone had to put his mug on a milk carton:

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And then there were the wags at Twitter using the hashtag #WhereIsPutin.

Journalist Jake Tapper had this exchange:

Another Twitter poster swore he spotted Putin at a London art gallery with his pregnant girlfriend:

Did anyone think of checking Hillary’s emails?

Poor Joe Biden. He’s really confused.

This isn’t the first time a Russian leader has mysteriously disappeared. Joseph Stalin went AWOL right after the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. In 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev was barricaded in his vacation dacha by hardliners in his cabinet. They all returned. Putin, however, has yet to surface. And Groundhog Day was last month.

So where’s Putin? Who knows? Until he surfaces — if he surfaces — the Interwebs will continue to engage in a bit of tomfoolery at the expense of the cartoonish leader.

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Kim is a pint-sized patriot who packs some big contradictions. She is a Baby Boomer who never became a hippie, an active Republican who first registered as a Democrat (okay, it was to help a sorority sister's father in his run for sheriff), and a devout Lutheran who practices yoga. Growing up in small-town Indiana, now living in the Kansas City metro, Kim is a conservative Midwestern gal whose heart is also in the Seattle area, where her eldest daughter, son-in-law, and grandson live. Kim is a working speech pathologist who left school system employment behind to subcontract to an agency, and has never looked back. She describes her conservatism as falling in the mold of Russell Kirk's Ten Conservative Principles. Don't know what they are? Google them!

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