A Russian fighter jet came within 10 feet of a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the Black Sea last month.
My prediction: Putin’ll be banging his shoe on a podium before the year is out.
A Russian fighter jet came within 10 feet of a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace over the Black Sea last month.
My prediction: Putin’ll be banging his shoe on a podium before the year is out.
Where is OSHA when you need them!?
Did the US plane complain about a “microaggression” and demand a “safe place”?
“lectern”, not “podium”, I think.
@3 – Possibly right, but Wikipedia actually says “desk”, so… *shrug*.
Anyway, I’ll correct that chink in my grammatical armor going forward
It is whatever the correct term is for those long tables/desks delegates sit out when listening to speeches. One account has it this way.
“During the meeting, head of the Filipino delegation Lorenzo Sumulong referred to “the peoples of Eastern Europe and elsewhere which have been deprived of the free exercise of their civil and political rights and which have been swallowed up, so to speak, by the Soviet Union”.Upon hearing this, Khrushchev quickly came to the rostrum, being recognized on a Point of Order. There he demonstratively, in a theatrical manner, brushed Sumulong aside, with an upward motion of his right arm — without physically touching him — and began a lengthy denunciation of Sumulong, branding him as “a jerk, a stooge, and a lackey” and demanded Assembly President Frederick Boland (Ireland) call Sumulong to order. Boland did caution Sumulong to “avoid wandering out into an argument which is certain to provoke further interventions”, but permitted him to continue speaking and sent Khrushchev back to his seat.
Khrushchev pounded his fists on his desk in protest as Sumulong continued to speak, and, as some sources claim, at one point picked up his shoe and banged the desk with it.Some other sources report a different order of events: Khrushchev first banged the shoe then went to the rostrum to protest. ”
I bet desk or table is probably the most accurate term. When he banged his shoe he wasn’t at the lectern, podium nor rostrum, platform or any other descriptive equivalent.
Ten feet! That’s awfully close to swapping paint!
No clue what Putin will do next, but he’ll do it forcefully, aggressively, and with determination.