Russian Officials Throw a Tantrum After U.S. Diplomat Calls Putin 'Small Man'

[Zorro]

Russians officials descended into a petty meltdown over the “outrageous” remarks from a U.S. ambassador.

The U.S. ambassador to Hungary is the latest American official to earn the Kremlin’s ire over remarks he made last week publicly deriding Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “small man” and “a holdover from a time that most of the world has tried to move beyond.”

In a speech on Jan. 6 commemorating the 45th Anniversary of the Return of the Hungarian Holy Crown, Ambassador David Pressman took the opportunity to slam Russia’s war as the product of “tyranny” and “authoritarianism” before taking a jab directly aimed at Putin.

The Russian president “can only lead through fear and intimidation,” said Pressman. “The Ukrainians, much like the Hungarians decades earlier, had already made their decision. They had already charted their course, and it did not include a return to a broken, abusive system that had failed them for so long.”

Russian officials, it appears, have not taken well to the remarks.

In a Telegram post on Tuesday, the Russian embassy in Hungary went on a tirade against Pressman’s “unacceptable” remarks about “the personality of a foreign Head of State,” calling his comments “an outrageous violation of basic diplomatic protocol and practice,” according to Russian state news agency TASS.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-anger-after-us-ambassador-to-hungary-david-pressman-calls-vladimir-putin-a-small-man

[Drum]

1. Another thin-skinned dictator

[Igel]

2. Perhaps.

Or the ambassador was afraid that if he didn't speak out he'd have an unfortunate encounter with a window, then, shortly thereafter, with a sidewalk.

In that system, you don't wait for marching orders. If you need to be told what to do, you're obviously an infidel traitor unclean and need to be--and might just be--cast out.

The terrified at a remove are often apparently stronger supporters than those closer to the center from which all crap flows.

So in Soviet Union. So in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

So in Hamline.

And so in Vladimir Josipovich Putlin's Russia.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. Well he is a very small man

He's 5 ft 6 inches. Malaria Trump towered over him when they met. She's 5 ft 11 inches.

Russians don't like it when you point out how short Putin is. In 2016, I use to routinely call him short and watch all the Russian trolls come out to attack me. It was like clock work. They swarm when you point out what a small man Putin is.

[Kennah]

4. Say he has "small dick energy". Maybe he'll have an aneurysm.

[Qutzupalotl]

5. Putin reminds me of the guy Benny Hill was always slapping on the back of his head

Jackie

[edbermac]

6. Just like his buddy.

[blue-wave]

7. The truth hurts, doesn't it?

Get over it Vlad.