Russian prostitutes are the best in the world
Don’t blame me; I didn’t say it.
Putin said it, in the course of a statement that is quite comprehensive in its scope:
…[Trump] is a person who for many years has organized a beauty pageant, socialized with the most beautiful women in the world. It is hard to believe that he ran to a hotel to meet with our girls of a low social class, although they are the best in the world. But finally, you know, what I want to say, prostitution is a serious, ugly, social phenomenon, young women do this connected to the fact that they cannot survive any other way and that is a problem of society but people who order false information and spread this information against the elected President, who fabricate it and use it in a political fight, they are worse than prostitutes.
But back to that “best in the world” claim. Now, it’s nice to see a leader with pride in his country, but my question is: how does Putin know? Does he have advisors who did a study and presented him with the findings? And wouldn’t a person have to have sampled prostitutes from all the other countries in the world to know which nation has the best?
This is the sort of thing that happens to me when I read the news. My mind wanders. It questions. It mulls.
And while we’re mulling, do all prostitutes choose the life because “they cannot survive any other way”? I haven’t done much reading on prostitution in recent years, but I’m pretty sure I’ve studied and read about it in the past and there are a host of reasons people become prostitutes, especially high-priced call girls of the type that one might imagine an imaginary prostitute-using Trump would hire. Some, for example, just are attracted to the high life and the amazing amount of money they can earn if they are beautiful and sexy enough. Some are drug addicts and are supporting their habits. At the lower ends of the profession, you find various types of desperation and need, and some very sad stories.
As for calling those who spread false information to fight their opponents “worse than prostitutes”—well, there is indeed an awful lot of badness and forms of badness in the world. Plenty to go around.
I sometimes drive for UBER in Atlanta and last weekend one of my passengers was an “escort”. She told me that she did it to support her father’s ministry in Tennessee.
I don’t recall the exact term but I think it comes close to factious or flippant.
As for spreading false information:
“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour” is the ninth (respectively the eighth according to the Catholic and Lutheran count[1]) of the Ten Commandments,
Pretty serious stuff.
how does Putin know?
KGB colonels know things
As anyone consulted with Slick Willy? If wanted to know which nationality produces the best prositutes I would ask him first.
Pfft. Well I wouldnt know really but I have seen them a few times.
Once staying at the intourist hotel in Moscow, I think 1997. I was on third floor and looked out my window about 8pm, and saw a line of about 50 people or so outside. Got dressed and was heading out, suddenly there was 2 women on the benches by the elevator doors propositioning me. They werent there before, so I asked about it. Yup every night at 8 they would line up.
Boy did I have a problem with the russian goons when I tried to take a lady up to my room to get my camera before going to the pushkin museum. They first tried to stop me and demand $50 bucks or she could not go up with me. I tried to explain that we would be right back as we are only there for a camera. Then they physically grabbed her by the arm. Of course, I forgot in that instant where I was, and who these goons really were. So I was in shape and in my early thirties, and shoved the goon who grabbed her, hard enough to throw him against the wall. This totally shocked the two goons, course suddenly I realized where I was. Luckily for me, in through the glass doors strode a Moscow cop. HE started slapping the goons around trying to get them to hit him back, while his partner covered him with an assault rifle. I ran and got the camera and we split that scene. Cops were still there and had 8 or so goons up against the wall, slappin and taunting them.
My only other experience with Russian hookers was in singapore a few years ago. The attitude from them had changed alot. No more were Americans sought after by Russian hookers, nope. Every other hooker type from around the world would walk away from others when they spotted an American, but the russian ladies wouldnt give us the time of day. Raw hate.
Russians of all stripes hate us now days, cause if the hookers are that way, I can only imagine what its like back in Russia.
Luckily for me again, Singapore has ladies from all over the world, and I am not a racist.
I think there is something missing in translation, and that the meaning of what Mr. Putin said would be closer to “Russian women are the best in the world” (with no serious intention to refer to his country’s prostitutes).
Leaders of other countries are smart people, and they do have teams of analysts. So what would they likely make of the Obama team and this country’s intelligence agencies in these last few weeks? The smart ones would likely conclude that it was amateur hour from Democrat politicians who were butt-hurt over their side losing the 2016 general election, and who wanted to find some way to damage Mr. Trump politically, and to find a way to continue their policies, even though they would be out of office soon.
As for prostitution in general, with a part-time job at one hotel, every now and then I and the other staff would be aware of certain behavior from young women who might check in, along with men coming through the lobby at odd hours. And sometimes the local police would give us flyers of known women of ill repute. Thankfully, the ones who got busted (for prostitution or drug-dealing) were always at the lower-class hotels down the street.
I’m with Yankee, it was national pride speaking. Whatever the area, Russians are the best.
Remember the father in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”? His ‘Greeks are the best at everything’ routine was funny because its common enough to be a cliche.
I’m more impressed with the depths Putin reveals in his comment on the circumstances that lead many to prostitution.
While those who spread false information are practicing the oldest of sins, i.e. the serpent in the garden’s “you will not surely die”.
Putin’s statement, at least in translation, is startingly Trumpian: disjointed, stream-of-consciousness musings of a generally defensive nature punctuated by random outbursts of bombast. No wonder they get along.
I’ve read another translation:
“I can hardly believe that he ran off to meet with our girls of low social morals. Although of course ours are the best in the world.”
In this translation the change of tone, from histrionic moralizing to frivolous expertise, makes clear that it’s a joke. Not everyone will understand. Trump will.
y81; zat:
I agree that it’s Trump-like.
I thought he was making a joke in order to convey that he thought the whole accusation was a joke, and a pitiful one.
Putin obviously doesn’t take Obama seriously.
KGB ran a “swallow school” for training ladies to use their feminine wiles in the service of their country. The ladies had to go private-sector after the fall of the Evil Empire. Russian prostitutes are the best in the world because they had official government backing and training for decades. Former KGB Colonel Putin’s personal expertise in this field is a matter for conjecture. 🙂
Russian girls are Slavic, and characteristics of many lovely Slavic women are being white, blond, high cheekbones, wide smiles, nice noses. Melania is Slavic, so is my own lovely wife.
Most Russians would claim they have the most lovely girls in the world. And whether it’s the girls or the pros, Putin could have meant either — but likely he would say it to support Russian pride and in a little manly semi-locker room talk style.
I’d expect Vlad & Donald to understand each other well, and likely to even respect (& possibly like?) each other — but also both to be very partisan for their own sides. I’d expect them to find their real borders fairly fast, and make big PR about being better for their own side on the areas that the other concedes.
I don’t know what these areas are.
I don’t expect the Germans to think Russian natural gas is the best in the world — but they know their lifestyles are dependent on it. The German-Russian relationship will become increasingly important in the world, if Trump reduces his support for NATO.