Happy birthday Mister President
Oops there goes the Kerch bridge:
Ukraine is exploding with excitement this morning.
Videos of the damaged Crimean bridge have spread like wildfire on social media; this is already being compared to the sinking of the Russian warship Moskva in April.
“The guided missile cruiser Moskva and the Kerch bridge – two notorious symbols of Russian power in Ukrainian Crimea – have gone down,” tweeted Ukraine’s ministry of defence.
“What’s next in line, Russkies?” it went on.
Ukraine has a brilliant sense of humor.
Ukraine’s inventive social media activists are gleefully pumping out memes to celebrate the occasion.
And Ukraine’s second largest bank, Monobank, says it has already issued a new debit card design featuring the collapsed bridge.
Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council, wasn’t the only one noting that the attack came just a day after Vladimir Putin’s 70th birthday, tweeting a video of the damaged bridge next to Marilyn Monroe’s famous performance of Happy Birthday, Mr President from 1962.
From the BBC article Ophelia linked above:
I love the cultural mashup on Twitter, where Ukrainians taunt the Russian government in English (as the lingua franca), in this thread for example:
https://twitter.com/uamemesforces/status/1578637050495979520
So do I!
This post send chills up and down my spine. I had to google Putin’s birthday. I was afraid his was the same as mine, but whew, it’s one day after.