• Tucker Carlson said Vladimir Putin was “a couple hours late” for their Kremlin interview this week.
  • Making people wait is a power move often used by the Russian president.
  • Putin launched into a lengthy revisionist history of Russia that Carlson said “annoyed” him.

Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled a power move on Tucker Carlson that set the stage for the former Fox News host getting steamrolled.

In a post-interview reaction clip, Carlson said Putin was “a couple hours late” for his two-hour interview with the Russian leader in the Kremlin this week.

Making people wait is a tactic Putin has regularly used as a power play to show dominance over his guests, including world leaders.

Putin had former President Donald Trump wait for an hour before a summit in Helsinki in 2018.

He was about 50 minutes behind schedule for a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2015, Reuters reported.

And he also held German Chancellor Angela Merkel waiting for more than four hours at a private lunch in 2014, Radio Free Europe reported.

  • @ringwraithfish
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    224 months ago

    That’s an intriguing story. I don’t think that makes him a gangster. More like something a common thief would do. That sounds like right out of a playbook of common street urchins in Paris or eastern Asia.

    Glad the state department told Kraft to shove it. Could you imagine an international standoff over a fucking billionaire’s ring.

    • mozz
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      124 months ago

      That’s a lot of gangsters though (in my opinion). There’s this mystique that they’re honorable and all-powerful when in fact the whole thing is based on just the capacity for shocking violence, coupled with this kind of skeevy pettiness. They’re all just a bunch of step-daughter-fuckers with delusions about themselves.

      And yeah, if you hand a precious object to a known thief because in your mind there’s no way he would steal it from you, that’s on you. If you won’t or can’t go head-to-head with him yourself to get it back, then chalk it up as a valuable lesson.