For his endless speech, Putin brought together the beautiful Russian, a cadre of the most elegant beings at the summit of Moscow before Napoleon.
This week’s exhibitions in Kiev and Moscow, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin there is something personal. The American president transferred the symbolism of the war for the intervening country to the western terrain, his Russian colleague stoutly replied, “I will break his face with oratory.” Both distort the truth to claim leadership of the planet, but global capitalism was more shocked by the fiery populist speech of a White House resident before Congress than by Muscovite bravado.
Accessories are very important in an image war. The daring Biden walks with Ray-Ban glasses that shape his identity in Ukraine, which Putin does not dare to visit, so much so that he joked that the brand should sponsor him. It’s not just a coincidence that the visual prosthetic that defines Tom Cruise’s appearance in last year’s excellent Top Gun: Maverick belongs to the RB 3025 family. Through these dark glasses, all of Hollywood is watching you.
Contradictions erupt after confrontation is defined. Biden handed over a pair of Ray-Bans Concorde models. putin At the Swiss summit in 2021, a lasting love between Washington and Moscow is still dreamed of. Also, the gift was signed by the American on the right lens and frame. The Kremlin should immediately reveal the fate of the glasses. The world needs to know whether the tsar burned them or still allowed his compatriots to carry them privately, victims of the same imitation instinct that prompted his compatriots to raze Ikea in Moscow before it closed in retaliation for the war in Ukraine.
First of all, Biden is announcing that he is an ambassador for a brand managed by Luxottica from Milan. The promotion of a foreign-made luxury product stands in stark contrast to the revolutionary pre-Congress speech in which the president pledged to nationalize even paella and raise panda bears on Wyoming farms. Giving characteristic objects that are not even native speaks to the drama they share. Washington and Moscow they are becoming more and more dependent on the rest of the planet even for their exhibitionism.
In proxy wars, the people are the message. So Putin responded to Biden’s sunglasses podium erected in Kiev, not with bombardment, but with even more heavy artillery, a careful sighting, and a speech that lasted nearly two hours. During his intervention, the tsar did not present himself as a murderer of truth, limiting himself to torturing him until he was forced to confess to crimes he did not commit.
The distortion of reality focused on re-enacting Ukraine’s oppression under Nazism or slandering the collapse of the West as it was during the times of the USSR. A pompous exhibition of idyllic notes about concessions for a two-week vacation each semester to soldiers sent to Ukraine, this statement was met with confusion. As the speech, written by a brother-in-law, progressed, cameras caught the first yawns of those summoned who had thus far been duly cleared and sent to Siberia.
The key to Putin’s speech before the Russian federal assembly was the audience. The carpet-ovetonic image of the dinosaurs of the Soviet communist party was replaced by extremely attractive men and women with perfect make-up, with haircuts for a hundred euros and suits for twenty times that price. It was achieved with a seductive and eye-catching casting that was too seductive to be the desired effect. In his personal duel with Biden, the Russian president brought together, according to Tolstoy, a staff of his country’s most elegant assets, on the same level as Moscow before Napoleon. To proclaim the decline of the West, the Kremlin showcased classic beauty canons through a Hollywood show.
On Tuesday, the front pages of the world were filled with eighty-year-old Biden’s tour of a country in a remotely controlled war. On Wednesday, Putin reigned under the double-headed eagle and, despite his oddly inactive right arm for most of his scribbles, the same media thrones. On Thursday, galactic duelists made headlines as they sought the complicity of China and Poland. The first world supports Ukraine. Third, he favors the Russians, who despise any multiracial or multi-sex temptation in front of the most sophisticated audience imaginable, and raises little suspicion on the battlefield. Putin was wrong to belittle Zelensky, and especially Biden.
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