Putin Can't Give Up Now

Text on the meme

I have way too much riding on this, Putin can't give up now 😣 What do you (personally) have “riding” on this? I talked a lot of shit to my friends about how Russia was gonna break the NATO strange on the world. If he doesn't I'll be laughed at

What it means

A Twitter reply thread jokes about someone having publicly predicted that Russia would break NATO and now desperately needing Putin to succeed to avoid being mocked by friends. The punchline is the absurdly personal meaning of geopolitical events and the use of “riding” as a double entendre for having a lot at stake. It is sent as a reaction to overconfident predictions or being emotionally invested in a losing outcome.

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Twitter screenshot / скриншот Twitter orangutan avatar / аватар с орангутаном reply thread / ветка ответов social media post / публикация в соцсети text message / текстовое сообщение black background / чёрный фон white text / белый текст sad face emoji / смайлик с грустным лицом NATO reference / упоминание НАТО Russia reference / упоминание России