There is something that is missed here that may have set Putin off. Here is the transcript leading up to Putin cutting Biden's microphone and sending the cameras and lights away.
BIDEN, finishing a monologue: The chairman of Boeing USA in Russia said, I beg to disagree with my friend. He said the market in China for aircraft is seven times bigger. He said let me tell you why we're here. Russia has the best engineers in the world. Russia has intellectual capital. Russia is a great nation. Your titanium lets the planes fly that you buy.
PRIME MINISTER PUTIN: (As translated.) Allow me to make a point, we have the largest in the world engineering center here in Moscow.
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: There's a reason. Mr. Prime Minister, I've been around a long time. The first time I was here -- the second time I was here, I was here meeting with President Brezhnev. We were trying to pass SALT II --
Before Putin bitch-slapped Biden, though, Biden bitch-slapped Putin in terms that most people missed.
Titanium. Biden is reminding Putin of one of the major intelligence coups of the Cold War. We were producing the SR-71, which allowed us unimpeded access to areas they wished to deny to surveillance. We didn't have enough titanium to build them though. So we bought it from the Soviet Union through front companies. Putin spent his career in the intelligence organization that got dunked on in this little duel.
"Your titanium lets the planes fly that you buy" Our aircraft manufacturers love sending your titanium back to you!
"You're bitch-slapping us on our own turf?" lights out in mid-speech
Deterrence from smuggled nukes relies on a technology well-known to the nuclear powers. The isotope fingerprint available after a blast, together with intelligence on worldwide sources of fissionable material, provides a return address for such devices, preventing their use.
When our fissionable material is all over the world, this for the first time enables New York to disappear in a radioactive fireball with no return address.
Biden would just be staring into the camera with his Alzheimer's affect, promising an investigation.
There is something that is missed here that may have set Putin off. Here is the transcript leading up to Putin cutting Biden's microphone and sending the cameras and lights away.
BIDEN, finishing a monologue: The chairman of Boeing USA in Russia said, I beg to disagree with my friend. He said the market in China for aircraft is seven times bigger. He said let me tell you why we're here. Russia has the best engineers in the world. Russia has intellectual capital. Russia is a great nation. Your titanium lets the planes fly that you buy.
PRIME MINISTER PUTIN: (As translated.) Allow me to make a point, we have the largest in the world engineering center here in Moscow.
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: There's a reason. Mr. Prime Minister, I've been around a long time. The first time I was here -- the second time I was here, I was here meeting with President Brezhnev. We were trying to pass SALT II --
Before Putin bitch-slapped Biden, though, Biden bitch-slapped Putin in terms that most people missed.
Titanium. Biden is reminding Putin of one of the major intelligence coups of the Cold War. We were producing the SR-71, which allowed us unimpeded access to areas they wished to deny to surveillance. We didn't have enough titanium to build them though. So we bought it from the Soviet Union through front companies. Putin spent his career in the intelligence organization that got dunked on in this little duel.
"Your titanium lets the planes fly that you buy" Our aircraft manufacturers love sending your titanium back to you!
"You're bitch-slapping us on our own turf?" lights out in mid-speech
Oh, it's way worse than that.
Deterrence from smuggled nukes relies on a technology well-known to the nuclear powers. The isotope fingerprint available after a blast, together with intelligence on worldwide sources of fissionable material, provides a return address for such devices, preventing their use.
When our fissionable material is all over the world, this for the first time enables New York to disappear in a radioactive fireball with no return address.
Biden would just be staring into the camera with his Alzheimer's affect, promising an investigation.
Wait a minute wait a minute WAIT a minute...Biden strung that thought together? And spoke it?? If he can do this why are they hiding him.
This was back in 2011. His brain wasn't pudding yet, that was all dumb ass Joe that nobody takes seriously.
Ahah thank you. I was so confused.
This was as Vice President, before the Alzheimer's kicked in.
No. Biden isn't smart enough to pass a subtle quip like that.
That's not what he meant.
Biden has always been a fucking moron who has no understanding of being subtle or pulling a fast one.