The Tucker interview was fascinating. Putin talked about a wide variety of subjects for over two hours. He was measured, calm, factual and sharp as a damn tack.
Contrast that with what we saw tonight in the US press conference or any time #CadaverBiden speaks. We're screwed in any discussion that might ever happen between senior leaders.
The analysis Putin went thru on the Russian vs US financial situation was fascinating and was predicted when we started pulling strings nearly two years ago now....they get stronger, we get weaker. Putin summed it up succinctly:
"The tools the US uses don't work"
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
Joseph Heller, Catch 22