This is the former President of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, on May 26, 2012! Are you fucking kidding me? "My colleague," "Barack," he called him frigging Barak! He did everything but give him love bites. This is unbelievable. I have NO recollection of this, I guess I was drunk for longer portions of 2012 than I realized, and didn't believe my eyes until I saw this on the official Russian website http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/3586. This counts as a scientific experiment. What do you do in science when you are trying to determine a cause? Change one variable. In this experiment we have started with the variables Obama and Putin and we have seen that Obama+Putin=SHIT. Then we changed a variable, substituting "Medvedev" for Putin and our equation became Obama+Medvedev=LOVE BITES. Therefore, therefore, we may conclude from our experiment that the cause of SHIT is Putin. We so conclude:
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: My colleague Barack Obama and I have once again had a constructive discussion of the various issues on the international agenda and on bilateral cooperation between the Russian Federation and the United States.
PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: My colleague Barack Obama and I have once again had a constructive discussion of the various issues on the international agenda and on bilateral cooperation between the Russian Federation and the United States.
I said that although there are varying assessments of the reset in relations that has been much spoken about over these last three years, I think that we have accomplished very useful work over this time. These have perhaps been the best three years in relations between our two countries over the last decade. We achieved a lot, starting with the New START Treaty and ending with our cooperation on the most sensitive international issues.
I particularly want to thank the President of the United States for all of his effort and support in helping the Russian Federation to join the World Trade Organisation. This was very important for us. We hope to be able to soon resolve the remaining issues in this area, including that of the Jackson-Vanik amendment.
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We discussed the missile defence issue too and said that there is still time to find a solution. Cooperation and discussion on all of the different areas related to the European missile defence project could be more active, and we agreed that the time is ripe for the technical experts to start working together. Both countries stick to their positions, we to ours, the United States to its position, however, dialogue on this issue is not only possible but necessary, and speaking frankly, we still have time to find a balanced solution, all the more so when you take into account the positive experience that Barack and I built up during the work on the New START Treaty. Indeed, I hope that we can put this experience to use now in finding a solution to this very complex missile defence issue.
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I take this opportunity to say that my contacts with Barack Obama have always been a great pleasure, and the level of mutual understanding that we have reached over these years has helped us to resolve many important bilateral and international issues. I hope that relations between our countries and their leaders will continue in this spirit. I take this opportunity too, Barack, to once again invite you to visit Russia, although I know that this is not an easy year, an election year. I invited you to St Petersburg on my own behalf and on behalf of President-elect Vladimir Putin, and I repeat this invitation now.
