Awesome!
I heart Putin:
Russian President Vladimir Putin walked off with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's diamond-encrusted 2005 Super Bowl ring... Kraft showed the ring to Putin, who tried it on, put it in his pocket and left, according to Russian news reports. It wasn't clear if Kraft, whose business interests include paper and packaging companies and venture capital investments, intended that Putin keep the ring.
Why did he do it? Because he can. That's what you get for trying to suck up to Kaiser Soze.
UPDATE: Heh. Dan Drezner: [T]his is exactly how it worked with Gazprom as well.
Russian President Vladimir Putin walked off with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's diamond-encrusted 2005 Super Bowl ring... Kraft showed the ring to Putin, who tried it on, put it in his pocket and left, according to Russian news reports. It wasn't clear if Kraft, whose business interests include paper and packaging companies and venture capital investments, intended that Putin keep the ring.
Why did he do it? Because he can. That's what you get for trying to suck up to Kaiser Soze.
UPDATE: Heh. Dan Drezner: [T]his is exactly how it worked with Gazprom as well.
