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I'm not necessarily doubting you, but I feel like you have some examples of Putin being rude and disrespectful during diplomatic meetings, and I'd love to see them.
Tbh, I have noticed that he can be very... "showy" when it comes to how he conducts meetings, such as when he threw a pen for a business executive to sign when he was forcing them to comply with a law (BBC reported on it and bemoaned the fact that he was meeting them face to face while the grumpy business CEO was rigidly signing the pen).
In that sense, he is indeed, well, rude, though I don't blame him in that instance.
Still, it does speak to a sense of pride and combativeness, I suppose, whether he needs those qualities or not.
I also know that he tells "improper jokes" sometimes, like when he said that he "doesn't condone prostitution" but then quips "but we do have the best prostitutes in the world."
(My memory is fuzzy on that last one; it was worded in a way that was tongue and cheek when Russia was lambasted in public forums for having rampant prostitution.)
I remember that first incident, it was funny AF.
I was hoping there would be more funny ones, but yeah, all of this checks out.
Yeah, the last example is a bit fuzzy. He's very, err, opinionated, from what I can tell. Not sure if that's really a stunning observation by me, or if that's just par for course for world leaders, but there you go.