• apftwb@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “Just give them some free stuff. It doesn’t need to make sense. The PR value you get is worth so much more than the monetary value of the gift”

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    3 days ago

    This makes no sense. They randomly met him on the street but already had a new motorcycle that just happened to be the same kind as his old one?

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      3 days ago

      The unexpected gift by the Russian leader came after reporters with Russian state television Channel 1 met Warren by chance on the streets of Anchorage ahead of the summit.

      It could’ve been more than a week after he got polled by a reporter (if he really got found this way), so it lets russian side order one and transport it. Him having Ural is likely a marker to question him in the first place. What makes less sense is the gift itself, it’s really out of blue and you can’t interpret it as anything but a random move by his PR team.

      If gossips are right and Vlad himself watches his own TV tho… I imagine some clerks in the mission hunting local listings for a new Ural with one day delivery.