They don’t make world leaders like they used to, as far as Vladimir Putin is concerned. Talking to a Kremlin-friendly gathering of journalists at his traditional end-of-year press conference on Friday, the Russian president spoke with fond nostalgia of the old gang, saying he’d like to spend more time with “people close to me”, such as the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, the former French president Jacques Chirac and Silvio Berlusconi, late prime minister of Italy.
There’s little chance of peace on earth with leaders like these
[LEADERS LIKE WHOM? JOE BIDEN? SCHOLZ? MACRON? URSULA VONTHINGSTERS? OH I SEE! THE IMAGE ON OFFER IS THAT OF PUTIN WITH A MISSILE IN THE BACKGROUND...]
BY Jonathan Este
High office aside, these men have another thing in common: They are all now dead.