WTF is Going On?
Putin's long, white table is a buffet feast for the world's meme makers
Russia's leader takes social distancing to extremes, with a meeting that makes him look like a grumpy toddler in a high chair
13 February 2022 - 00:02
I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a throne room. They're uniformly built on a very grand scale. The idea is to indicate to the supplicant that they are, indeed, very small fry in relation to the big fish in a position of authority sitting on the throne in the very big room...
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