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putanic victory
This is the "loser" version of a "Pyrrhic" victory, one that echoes the disaster of the Titanic on its maiden voyage. However, this one refers to the Russian president and his deluded invasion of Ukraine.
In three months of war in Ukraine, Russia's "special operation" can only be called a putanic victory with 25,000 dead Russian soldiers and close to 100,000 wounded.
putanic victory by Rand Kremlin Paul May 14, 2022
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)