Posted on 07/20/2022 6:42:07 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Vladimir Putin was snubbed by Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan who left him twiddling his thumbs in front of TV cameras during a summit in Iran yesterday.
The Russian leader was holding face-to-face talks with his sometimes-ally in Tehran on Tuesday for the first time since ordering the invasion of Ukraine back in February.
But he was left waiting for a toe-curling 48 seconds in front of the world's press as Erdogan failed to arrive on time for a hand-shaking photo-op.
Putin's critics said he was left 'humiliated and insulted' by what they saw as a bare-faced snub, while others said it showed how far his standing had fallen since the war.
It comes after Putin himself had left Erdogan waiting for almost two minutes in front of TV cameras ahead of a meeting in 2020.
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Another totally stupid post. We have already wasted space with this same “big news” earlier today. Yawn
Gosh, that’s worse than how Obama treated Netanyahu. /s
Video:
Those 50 seconds that Erdogan made Putin wait, looking frazzled in-front of cameras say plenty of how much has changed after Ukraine:
https://twitter.com/Joyce_Karam/status/1549487286966009858
hey, joe got a fist bump in saudi
Erdogan also rejected Putin’s drone request.
Biden spent more time than that looking for someone to shake his hand when Obama was among his beloved.
Biden sucks, too.
You really need to seek help for your Putin Derangement Syndrome.
Not only did he make Putin wait, he made Putin step forward to shake his hand.
This is a truly sad post marcusmaxipad.
And I bet he looked really sick, and almost on his deathbed too. And could hardly use his arms and legs.
Erdogan just plays one side against the other. He’s not happy with Russian troops in Syria interfering with his theft of oil there, and needs to kiss up to the West so they won’t sink the Turkish lira any more than they already have. So now we are suppose to cheer Erdogan’s childish ‘snubbing’ of Putin by making him wait 48 seconds to be greeted? And this is somehow supposed to be big news? What a joke.
I’m sorry, but the subject matter of this article is just...really stupid and childish.
Russia is also in the way of Erdogan’s dream of rebuilding The Ottoman Empire.
Well most so-called leaders today are childish.
I’m sure policy wonks will obsess over what it could all mean or entail, but who describes a 48-second wait as “toe-curling”?
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