{"id":1424146,"date":"2022-04-07T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424146"},"modified":"2022-04-07T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T19:00:14","slug":"fact-check-did-vladimir-putin-make-these-disparaging-remarks-about-western-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-vladimir-putin-make-these-disparaging-remarks-about-western-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Vladimir Putin Make These Disparaging Remarks About Western Leaders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-vladimir-putin-make-these-disparaging-remarks-about-western-leaders%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424146&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A video\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/johndilemme\/posts\/10160422713769887\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/johndilemme\/posts\/10160422713769887&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649249365236000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3iEQCIiL4z18p94uUOFw6H\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims to show Russian President Vladimir Putin making disparaging remarks about Western leaders.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video\u2019s subtitles are incorrect. Putin does not mention any specific Western leader in the clip.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Putin announced that Russian forces would be conducting a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/23\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-invasion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. Since then, more than 1,400 civilians have been killed as a result of the war between the two countries, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/news\/2022\/04\/ukraine-civilian-casualty-update-3-april-2022#:~:text=Related&#038;text=From%204%20a.m.%20on%2024,1%2C417%20killed%20and%202%2C038%20injured.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.N.<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook video appears to show Putin making disparaging remarks about Western leaders. It shows Putin speaking Russian while English subtitles offer an alleged translation. According to the alleged translation, Putin calls President Joe Biden \u201ccrazy\u201d and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson \u201cunbalanced.\u201d He also allegedly makes remarks about New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin Lets it Rip\u2026 *Read Every Word*!\u201d reads part of the video\u2019s caption. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/04\/05\/fact-check-putin-declare-war-kenya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Vladimir Putin Declare War On Kenya?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video\u2019s English subtitles are incorrect. A reverse image search found the clip of Putin speaking is from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e7fv7nT4Jog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 16 meeting<\/a> he had with Russian economic leaders. During the meeting, he spoke about the effects of Western sanctions on the Russian economy, anti-war protests in Russia and Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/putin-says-western-attempt-global-dominance-will-fail-2022-03-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Other media outlets, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/world\/europe\/putin-russia-ukraine-protests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/3\/17\/scum-and-traitors-vladimir-putin-threatens-anti-war-russians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Jazeera<\/a>, reported that Putin called Russian anti-war protesters \u201cscum and traitors\u201d during the meeting and called for a \u201cself-purification\u201d of the country. However, none of the outlets that reported on the meeting mention Putin calling out specific Western leaders such as Johnson or Biden. A <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/uLJRI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">translation<\/a> of the meeting released by the Kremlin likewise makes no mention of specific Western leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video\u00a0shared on Facebook claims to show Russian President Vladimir Putin making disparaging remarks about Western leaders.Verdict: False The video\u2019s subtitles are incorrect. Putin does not mention any specific Western<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}