It’s a day for love, romance and overpriced restaurants. Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!
And there is no romance between politicians as big as that between Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin. late last year, the former Italian prime minister said he had “re-engaged” with the Russian leader and described himself as one of Putin’s “five real friends”. Ahh.
“For my birthday they sent me 20 bottles of vodka and a very sweet letter,” Berlusconi said in a leaked audio clip. “I replied with bottles of Lambrusco and an equally very sweet letter.”
and this week, Berlusconi was raising his partner again, saying that Volodymyr Zelensky was responsible for the war, not Putin. “I judge the behavior of this gentleman very negatively,” Berlusconi said of the Ukrainian president.
The love between Berlusconi and Putin has reached new levels with the discovery of the verse inside a Valentine’s Day card the Italian sent his Russian bestie (discovered by POLITICO on the floor of a Poste Italiane warehouse).
roses are red
violets are blue
you hate zelensky
and i do too
shame on the western allies
russia is right
ukraine is full of nazis
keep fighting
it’s downright unfair
that you get blamed
Zelensky’s fault
she has no shame
melonie is a snake
i don’t trust him at all
slap me?
he has some bile
so down with the eu
NATO and UNGA
let’s have a party
codeword flower flower
ignore victor Orban
I love you much more
even though you’re taking us closer
for the second world war