Putin: There is no happiness in life, only a mirage on the horizon, ‘Cherish that’

Lost in translation?

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Jim W. Dean and Gordon Duff
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Enjoy the video above. You can skip to the 14 minute mark for the Q & A segment for Putin.

The idea of mirages always was a fascinating idea, as depicted in the old Hollywood Westerns. They usually involved water and an empty canteen. But they are atmospheric attenuations.

Webster defines it as ‘an optical effect that is sometimes seen at sea, in the desert or over a hot pavement, that may have the appearance of a pool of water or a mirror in which distant objects are seen inverted, and that is caused by the bending or reflection of rays of light by a layer of heated air of varying density.’

But of course, Putin is likely referring to the mirage being something unattainable.



There are thousands of ways to pursue ‘the mirage of happiness’, but if one sits down quietly it may alight upon you like a mariposa.

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[ Update: A reader comments as follows and sheds more light on the translation from Russian. “…there are phrases and sayings that just don’t translate… Anyways Putin is trying to say there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Pot of gold translates to happiness, end of the rainbow is the mirage on horizon…”

Thank you our readers.

It might have been lost in translation but the viewer of the video is left with the distinct impression that the leader is shrugging it off as a silly question. A shrug is worth a thousand words. This might be due in part to the West’s legacy of shedding international agreements whenever it suits certain “interests”.

Erica P. Wissinger ]

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2 COMMENTS

  1. Take it from a Higher Source; “vanity of vanities, all is vanity and chasing after the wind.” That’s from Solomon, supposedly wisest man who ever lived. And he got it from God.
    Putin put a “sad” version of it.

  2. Having Russian speaking wife, I know there are phrases and sayings that just don’t translate and when they do, they don’t make any sense at all; same with jokes!
    Anyways Putin is trying to say there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
    Pot of gold translates to happiness, end of the rainbow is the mirage on horizon.
    So don’t get your hopes up he will ever be friends with the paymaster to Ukrainian nazi brigades marching east to kill Russians for sport, you American shits for brains…

    A joke my wife (from Belarus) made up:

    Why do Americans always smile?

    Because everybody has got a gun.

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