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July 22, 2022
50 Sick Headlines About Vladimir Putin’s Health

Over the last months the British MI-6 disinformation service had fun with strewing rumors over Vladimir Putin's health, mostly via British tabloids. It used its usual tools – a former MI-6 chief, 'former' MI-6 spies and the ever available 'anonymous' Russian oligarch who lives in London. Like its other propaganda claims these were obvious nonsense but found a reliably echo in the gossip media.

CIA Director William Burns finally had enough of it. Getting asked and having to answer stupid questions about Putin's health is a waste of time. Official media picked up on it. The narrative is thereby dead.

The Russians said 'thanks' to Burns and reinforced his message.

For incomplete lists of other MI-6 induced nonsense headline storms see:

Posted by b on July 22, 2022 at 09:14 UTC | Permalink
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Perhaps it is to cover for the “fact” that Biden has cancer?

Posted by: Maracatu | Jul 22 2022 9:18 utc | 1

“There are lots of rumors about President Putin’s health and as far as we can tell he’s entirely too healthy,” — William J. Burns, director of the C.I.A.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” — Henry II, King of England.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 22 2022 9:21 utc | 2

Oh, it was Zelensky says before, now it is The chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence service believes… and quire recently, it is Contrary to rumors surrounding Vladimir Putin’s health, the Russian President is “entirely too healthy,” according to the head of the CIA.
What it actually means, the so-called western intelligence has no intelligence, whatsoever. Aha, Biden is doing a Trump…”I got Corona, but I am OK”…😋

Posted by: ostro | Jul 22 2022 9:32 utc | 3

Making everyone believe somebody is dying is a good way to cover up when you assassinate them. If the Russians claim otherwise it’s ‘Russian disinformation’.
An important question is after this war, is, fundamentally, Putin an indispensable man? Whether he was before, things are different now, Russia as a state can have no illusions about what the US State Department has in store for it. Putinism might well outlive any man called Vladimir Putin. Indeed to kill him may bring it to strange new heights.

Posted by: Altai | Jul 22 2022 9:36 utc | 4

As long as the leader of the free world(TM) is healthy and sound…
End of quote. Repeat that line!

Posted by: Goingo | Jul 22 2022 9:38 utc | 5

Speculating further on the health of the conflicts participants, and the nationalists newfound stamina in resisting the Russian advance, I propose that the Ukrainian resolve has more to do with amphetamines and other psychopharmaceutica than any other recently supplied Western weapons system.

Posted by: too scents | Jul 22 2022 9:53 utc | 6

Well he is 20 years older than me and I saw recently that he was playing hockey,
So he’s not doing as poorly as some might wish.
Those that pay attention might notice that the Russian Federation has a government ins upport of their president and how he is encouraging leaders of the various states.
After Vladimir Vladimirovich will come another capable leader of the RF.
They are not going away, not a one time deal because of a single man.
I do so wish that my country had a good leader who could select and foster the ministers and support groups as VV Putin has done.
Last one I saw coming close was Pierre Elliot Trudeau, although a Rhodes scholar he had vision and initiated the process that created a Canadian constitution to disengage us from Rule Briittania.
From what I have read of his speeches Fidel Castro also grasped the world situation and his people’s role it as well.
Interesting to not that both Cuba and the USSR sent support to anti colonial wars in Africa.
Cubans fighting in the South of Africa!
Hope typepad does not eat my painstaking phone typed post.

Posted by: jonku | Jul 22 2022 10:00 utc | 7

Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (22072022)
The enemy is suffering significant losses in weapons supplied by Western countries.
In the period from July 5 to July 20, four launchers and one transport-loading vehicle were destroyed by ground and air based precision weapons of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems transferred to Ukraine. Of these, two launchers were eliminated in the area of the settlement of Malotaranovka, another “HIMARS” and a transport-loading vehicle in the area of Krasnoarmeysk and the fourth launcher – on the eastern outskirts of Konstantinovka, Donetsk People’s Republic.
As a result of a strike with precision ground-based weapons, the temporary deployment point of the nationalist formation “Black Hundred” deployed in the building of school No. 23 in the city of Kramatorsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic was destroyed. Up to three hundred nationalists and over 40 units of special equipment were liquidated.
High-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, equipped in a production hangar on the territory of an industrial zone in the eastern part of the city of Nikolaev. Enemy losses amounted to up to 30 personnel, six units of armored and automotive equipment, over two thousand shells for MLRS “Grad”, about a thousand shells for self-propelled howitzers “Acacia”.
The strikes by operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery against military facilities on the territory of Ukraine continue. During the day, six control points were hit, including the 92nd mechanized Brigade in the Rogan district of the Kharkiv region, the command and observation post of the battalion of the 72nd mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Serebryanka district of the Donetsk People’s Republic, as well as five warehouses with rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition in the areas of the settlements of Zaitsevo of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Vishnevoye and Uspenovka of the Zaporozhye region.
As part of the counter-battery struggle, four platoons of Grad multiple launch rocket systems, 24 artillery platoons of D-20 howitzers and 13 artillery platoons of D-30 guns were suppressed.
The Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile launcher was destroyed by the operational-tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces near the village of Cherevkovka, Donetsk People’s Republic.
Russian air defense means shot down 12 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles during the day in the areas of the settlements of Malaya Kamyshevakha, Vernopolye, Oknino, Balakleya, Recruiting, Slatino, Dolgenkoe, Chervonyi Oskol, Peschanoye of the Kharkiv region, Petrovsky and Zlatoustovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
In addition, two shells of the Hurricane multiple launch rocket system were intercepted in the Topolskoye and Malaya Kamyshevakha districts of the Kharkiv region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 260 aircraft, 144 helicopters, 1589 unmanned aerial vehicles, 357 anti-aircraft missile systems, 4141 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 762 multiple rocket launchers, 3176 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 4453 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

Posted by: Summary22072022 | Jul 22 2022 10:15 utc | 8

One wonders how these rumours surrounding Putin’s health or state of mind arise in the first place and why people in the spook business are more interested in passing on and exaggerating gossip rather than check and verify so-called information and try to figure who is behind it and why. Any scuttlebutt is good for business, I suppose, if it sells and makes a profit at the expense of truth and proper reporting.

Posted by: Jen | Jul 22 2022 10:22 utc | 9

But, but, but, the CIA director says and I quote:

“There are a lot of rumors about President Putin’s health, and as far as we can tell, he is entirely too healthy. It’s not a formal intelligence judgment.”

He is right of course!
And I detect a psychological death wish in these words!

Posted by: Sam Smith | Jul 22 2022 10:28 utc | 10

Projection on a grand scale by the boys who never grew up and have pretended they are the once and only princes and rightful rulers of all of the Earth and its peoples. It is they that are diseased, mentally ill, raving lunatics who will soon be gone – with age if not absurd suicide.
They certainly won’t die in battle being the cowardly children they have been brought upto be.
DeeDee and his/her boys own dreams in tatters.
He stopped Corbyn becoming the legitimate elected PM of the U.K. – twice!
A Complete Utter Nobhead Twat.
They come from the ‘ancient’ Crown and were bred to rule.
They wrote their own origin stories and fables, new religion for the masses – Lewis, Tolkien… it goes back to mid 1800’s started after the defeat of the proxy general Napoleon… by Russians!
Mutti will be begged to sort a peace and restore some security for the peoples of Germany and the EU that she has spent her life serving.
I will repeat what I have been saying for many months – NS2 was BUILT to function but was expected to be in the Western Princelings hands. It WILL function. Unless the princelings want to lose it ALL – not just their personal grandeur and their stolen wealth but their palaces estates and even lives as the peasants really really really will be a tad bit upset with the final straw. The narratives are already underway and have been for a decade – grassroots cannot be stopped – the Dutch and German Farmers , only the slow to rile British peasantry hasn’t yet flexed our muscle- when we do it will be swift – along the lines of the polltax upheaval and the General Strikes – born out of decade long never ending Austerity.
Where will they run too? Where the Nazis were taken to – just like in their fantasy to the West, across the Sea …hobbit and all and with their strange self regarding white supremacist certitudes. Watch out Canada and Alberta you are the last bastion of the fairies and their Masters from where they will launch the secret weapons of disease and Nukes and hope to come back in the future as the Chosen Princelings to Rule …again.
They really really really need extermination like a dangerous pathogen to stop their attempts at repeating their failed history.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 22 2022 10:50 utc | 11

I’d be less worried about VVP’s health than our own. I have visions of a satellite picture being taken this winter at nighttime. With Europe being all in dark and N. Korea all lit up because it’s swimming with Russian oil.

Posted by: P. Wittgenstein | Jul 22 2022 11:08 utc | 12

Europe being all in dark
@P. Wittgenstein | Jul 22 2022 11:08 utc | 12
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Contrarywise to the ECB raising rates by 0.5%, the Bank of Russia has just cut their Key Rate by 1.5%.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/russian-central-bank-slashes-key-rate-to-8-will-study-need-for-more-cuts

Posted by: too scents | Jul 22 2022 11:18 utc | 13

An addendum to my earlier as the news of headless chickens running shrilly about accelerates through the free inter web.
Boo hoo 😢 the bastard BRI is already transporting a LOT more containers by the month and our lovely Deepwater monopolies and new ‘Freeport’s of the City of London’ are crumbling.
The indomitable spriteer reports
Spriteer on Twitter
https://twitter.com/spriteer_774400/status/1550435831315406848?s=20&t=Ry-QyOHYUk8BSTdU85sTqQ

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jul 22 2022 11:20 utc | 14

https://thesaker.is/oligarchy-or-patriarchy-rule-by-the-few-or-rule-for-the-many/ this article explains a lot about the why? I quote:
“The Oligarchy does not like national identity, it destroys nation-states, as in the EU, for it wants ‘World Government’, which is code for World Dictatorship. This is the Dictatorship of the uprooted, which is why the Jewish component in it is strong (Jews have been uprooted ever since the Romans uprooted them in 70 AD). Oligarchy is based on the priority of accumulating money and therefore guarantees corruption, instability and the boom-bust cycle, because it rules by the financial sector. Hence the importance of Wall Street in New York, The City in London, Frankfurt in Germany and La Bourse in Paris. Hence the importance in all these countries of financial indices, which, so strangely, are always announced in their national news by their media.”
suggest propaganda content in media must remain in private hands and be globally administered. If ever, the truth were to be exposed to the masses, Oligarch hegemony would vanish. getting to the bottom of this controlled abuse by the oligarchy and understanding the security of the oligarchy is guaranteed not by nations but by controlled information content and controlled access of audiences to the propaganda.

Posted by: snake | Jul 22 2022 11:21 utc | 15

The (((Western))) Media sources grow… A short list compiled over the past several months
>ACCORDING TO A PENTAGON OFFICIAL
>I’VE HEARD
>RUSSIAN SPY CLAIMS
>THE GENERAL STAFF OF UKRAINE’S ARMED FORCES SAID
>MI6 CHIEFS SAY
>ISRAEL SAYS
>DATA FROM SEVERAL RELIABLE SOURCES
>THE BRITISH MINISTRY OF DEFENCE HAS REPORTEDLY SEEN INDICATIONS
>CONFIRMED TODAY BY ARESTOVICH
>CREATIVE BUT MOSTLY RELIABLE SOURCES
>ORYX
>CONFIRMED BY VISUAL EVIDENCE
>AUDIO REPORTS DETAIL
>UKRANIAN MEDIA REPORTS
>PENTAGON PROJECTS
>ACCORDING TO ANALYSTS
>U.K. SPY CHIEF INFORMS
>THE WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE SAYS
>A TOP-SECRET CABLE WARNED
>IT WAS ONCE REVEALED TO ME IN A DREAM
>INTERCEPTED AUDIO OF RUSSIAN TROOPS REVEALS
>POST BY IGOR STRELKOV
>RESPECTABLE SOURCES CLAIMED
>ACCORDING TO REPUTABLE SOURCES
>NUMEROUS REPORTS ARE NOW CIRCULATING
>THE UKRANIAN SECURITY SERVICE HAS ANNOUNCED
>THE NUMBER THREE PENTAGON OFFICIAL SAYS
>NICHOLAS DRUMMOND’S FRIEND CLAIMS
>A UKRANIAN FRIEND LIVING IN KYIV CLAIMS
>MORNING SUMMARY BY GEN. STAFF OF UAF
>UKRANIAN INTELLIGENCE CLAIM
>BELLINCUNT CONFIRMS
>RUSSIAN (((DISSIDENT))) PREDICTS
>PUBLIC SENTIMENT SUGGESTS
>MULTIPLE REPORTS FROM BOTH SIDES
>UNNAMED SOURCES CITED
>ACCORDING TO UNNAMED (((WESTERN))) OFFICIALS
>CITING UNNAMED WESTERN OFFICIALS
>A SOURCE FAMILIAR WITH RUSSIAN THINKING
>A SOURCE WHO SPOKE ON CONDITION OF ANONYMITY
>US INTELLIGENCE REVEALS
>UK INTELLIGENCE CONFIRMS
>NEXTA SAYS
>REUTERS SAYS
>/K/ TOLD ME
>I MADE IT UP
>US OFFICIALS SAY
>PENTAGON SAYS
>DOD BELIEVES
>GENERAL MILLEY CONFIRMS
>FBI AGREES
>DIPLOMATS SURMISE
>EU PROMISES
>CNN BELIEVES
>MSNBC HAS FOUND
>STUDIES SHOW
>EXPERTS SAY
>TWATTER (((BLUECHECKMARK))) SAID
>UNCONFIRMED BUT REALISTIC REPORTS
>BASED ON RELIABLE SIMULATIONS
>A SOURCE FROM UKRAINE
>NATO ESTIMATES
>JOE BIDEN SAID
>AZOV COMMANDER SAID

Posted by: leaf | Jul 22 2022 11:28 utc | 16

The British establishment mirrors its out-going prime minister, Boris Johnson in every way. A despicable clown.

Posted by: Steve | Jul 22 2022 11:29 utc | 17

Posted by: snake | Jul 22 2022 11:21 utc | 16
The Russian Federation has her own oligarchy. Strangely enough, you don’t hear much talk about it on the Saker blog. Have been looting the state of its assets and bringing capital abroad for 30 years up to 1 Trillion $ according to Sergey Glazyev. When is this going to change? Will it ever?

Posted by: v | Jul 22 2022 11:36 utc | 18

We need to counter these lies with articles like “10 Top Putin Health Tips”, “Stay Fit the Putin Way” and “How to Get in Shape While Forcing the EU Economy to its Knees”.

Posted by: Noam A. Larkey | Jul 22 2022 11:39 utc | 19

Zelensky state of mental health could be not so well. When he speaks he looks slightly inadequate. Bidens health certainly is not so good.
Indeed nationalist militants could be using some of the drugs hitler was using during invasion in France. It would not help in long term but could give edge at the short term.
“Black Hundred” were ultra-nationalists. I guess Ukraine employs all kind of right wing radicals. There are belorussian right wing divisions, some russian nazis and so on.
Russia had done mutch to re-integrate Chechenia. They give them all the rights, now they have more power than if they were formaly independant. Of corse russian population don’t like that, but it is for peace and populism would not work there.
Media and intelligence could do more. Like this creation of russian opposition now re-publicated by terrorist media, a gay relationships between Putin and prince of Monaco Albert: https://www.kavkazcenter.com/russ/content/2007/08/21/52413/chem-zanimalis-v-tyve-putin-i-sodomit-prints-monako-albert.shtml
At least it is fun to read and gave me some laught.

Posted by: Alef | Jul 22 2022 11:44 utc | 20

High-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, equipped in a production hangar on the territory of an industrial zone in the eastern part of the city of Nikolaev. Enemy losses amounted to up to 30 personnel, six units of armored and automotive equipment, over two thousand shells for MLRS “Grad”, about a thousand shells for self-propelled howitzers “Acacia”.

and so on…
Posted by: Summary22072022 | Jul 22 2022 10:15 utc | 8
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This says that the RF GRU gets info of movement of Ukr formations, exact coordinates etc from people on ground around those places, other than satellite info.

Posted by: ostro | Jul 22 2022 11:48 utc | 21

In lack of real not politicised intelligence Burns had to debunk the rumours not to look stupid.

Posted by: Cartagocat | Jul 22 2022 11:48 utc | 22

Actualy Putin at the time was willing to share information how he re-integrated Chechenia to tha Ukraine. But if you are fighting ‘asiates’, ‘the horde’, ‘an orcs’, ‘mongolian and finno-ugric hybrids’, ‘a colorado beetles’ etc you are not taking advice.

This says that the RF GRU gets info of movement of Ukr formations, exact coordinates etc from people on ground around those places, other than satellite info.
Posted by: ostro | Jul 22 2022 11:48 utc | 22

Of corse. They have supporters in Ukraine and probably in all the ranks in ukrainian military.
In regions where piopulation still support Ukraine ukrainian shelling could be more successfull, too.

Posted by: Alef | Jul 22 2022 11:59 utc | 23

(Jews have been uprooted ever since the Romans uprooted them in 70 AD).
Actually there are some who believe that the “real” Jews were completely annihilated in 70 AD and everyone claiming to be Jews afterwards are imposters.

Posted by: Hapalong Cassidy | Jul 22 2022 12:08 utc | 24

Putin has put on a couple of pounds. Maybe there has been more stress in his life lately.

Posted by: mi | Jul 22 2022 12:20 utc | 25

Ohh that’s sarcastic!
More please!
As long as the leader of the free world(TM) is healthy and sound…
End of quote. Repeat that line!
Posted by: Goingo | Jul 22 2022 9:38 utc | 5

Posted by: Jpc | Jul 22 2022 12:36 utc | 26

DunGroanin #11
”Projection on a grand scale …”
Indeed, a lot is to cover one’s very own shortcomings … Joe “stumbling” Biden with memory loss.
Pure part of war propaganda, nothing new to see … it works every time. WW1 en WW2, Vietnam with Westmoreland and McNamara, modern wars of Afghan campaign, illegal Iraq War, lies of Libya and Syria. The British MoD going full throttle with nearly a £ billion in contracts. Recently looked at the hybrid warfare in cyberspace … Russia is a minor player in comparison.
Wat Joe and Boris are part of a campaign of dehumanization of all Russians … blocking news sites, unity narrative where every punctuation is mandated … 1984 to new heights … I come across persons praying for the demise of the president of Russia … Cold War brainwashing … consequence of this campaign and ultimate goal is genocide. Ukraine media too are extreme in fascist rhetoric … very ugly, brains sold to the empire. Dangerous times Made In USA … exceptionalism, nationalist display … continuation MAGA.
Genocidal intent
https://brill.com/view/journals/icla/aop/article-10.1163-15718123-bja10098/article-10.1163-15718123-bja10098.xml
M.A.D. one must hate the country and it’s people before dropping the bomb.

Posted by: Oui | Jul 22 2022 12:39 utc | 27

Posted by: mi | Jul 22 2022 12:20 utc | 26
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I don’t think, Putin has stress as such. If he had, he had it in the very beginning, when the country was handed over to him by Yeltsin. Then he had an uphill task, with that nut Gorbachev betraying the USSR, and being attacked by the Jewish oligarchy in Russia. Once, he passed that hurdle, and made Russia great, this is not stressful.

Posted by: ostro | Jul 22 2022 12:40 utc | 28

By the way, the major Russo-hates hates are out, BoJo kicked out by his own, Draghi too. Biden “has” Covid (or he doing a Trump)…Scholtz given a second chance with gas flowing in NS1, even at 40% capacity, not much of chance for Macron (the guy is silent for long now), Poland’s Pinokio (Morawiecki) keeps on lying…😏
The rest are nobodies…

Posted by: ostro | Jul 22 2022 12:45 utc | 29

As long as the leader of the free world(TM) is healthy and sound…
End of quote. Repeat that line!
Posted by: Goingo | Jul 22 2022 9:38 utc | 5
Can you point me in the direction of this “free world?”
Because I live in the US and would like to visit it.

Posted by: Michigan Dude | Jul 22 2022 12:45 utc | 30

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