What on earth is going on here?
The only reasonable interpretation is that our leaders are attempting to re-enact a scene from Michael Mann’s excellent 1930s gangster film Public Enemies (sample line: “how long does it take you to go through a bank?”).
Alex adds: well, given the gangsta hustla manner in which he arrived, it was clearly always going to end this way. I blame Putin.
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