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Israel is still committing genocide.
There should be no excuses.
Of course not.
Edit: I mean of course there are no excuses. I'd like to think that maybe Russia only invited Israel to talk down to them, but I think that's extremely wishful thinking and unlikely.
Extremely wishful thinking is that Putin plans for Zelenskyy to actually attack Moscow during the festivities and will kill off the Israelis attending during the commotion.
Talking down to Israel is something that actually could happen. I believe Putin is known to be rude and disrespectful during dipolmatic meetings, when he can get away with it.
Regardless, it's because refusing to allow Israel to attend wouldn't help with any of Russia's political goals.
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.