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things I noticed in the Tucker interview are Putin's awareness of personal details: he makes reference to the fact that Tucker studied history in college, he also knew that Tucker wanted to join CIA; he also mentions Zelensky's father who fought against fascists. he did not seem aloof or out of touch, he seemed like a guy who is very good at figuring out other people to know what buttons of theirs to push, very cunning
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@augustus Putin comes from an environment where being cunning, paranoid and ruthless makes the difference between being dead or alive in power (by having "connections" and talking the talk where there's the need to do so), a long-standing characteristic of most of the Soviet Union and it's aftermath. It complements well his compulsive and inflexible personality, probably the only national-conservative in power worth mentioning.
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@augustus same energy as "studying other cultures so you can be more accurately racist towards them"