# Russia makes Steven Seagal special envoy to US

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-makes-steven-seagal-special-envoy-to-us/819118>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 5, 2018, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-makes-steven-seagal-special-envoy-to-us/819118 "2018-08-05T05:21:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-makes-steven-seagal-special-envoy-to-us/819118/21 "2018-08-06T16:20:56Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> I just feel like this is a really, really bad '80s action movie, and I HAVE NO IDEA WHO I’M SUPPOSED TO BE ROOTING FOR! Is Van Damme in this one too? Better not be fucking Chuck Norris.

All I know is one team has Vlad Putin, Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un, Dennis Rodman, and now Steven Seagal. So I have no problem declaring my loyalty for the other team.

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**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-makes-steven-seagal-special-envoy-to-us/819118/22 "2018-08-06T19:12:10Z")

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> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#):
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> I don’t understand what the fuck is going on anymore. How do I get out of Bizarro World?

“…you can check out any time you’d like, but you can never leave…”

> [@markn\_1](#):
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> Uh, I really don’t want to see this movie if Van Damme is fucking Chuck Norris.

You are buying the gallon of brain bleach I need.  
From the OP is this quote:

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> American Seagal, whose grandparents were _ **Russian Jews** _, was granted Russian citizenship in 2016.

Bolding and Italics mine.

If you haven’t studied history, Jews in Russia have had a…interesting…history, at times being of great importance, at other times victims of pogroms and bigotry. While Mr. Segal is apparently willing to represent Russia is one of those mysteries of life that I’d just sooner have known nothing about, like some of the information David Attenborough goes on and on about.

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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-makes-steven-seagal-special-envoy-to-us/819118/23 "2018-08-07T05:47:52Z")

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> [@markn\_1](#):
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> Uh, I really don’t want to see this movie if Van Damme is fucking Chuck Norris.

I might, if there is a chance I would find out that Chuck Norris can actually make facial expressions.

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