Putin's power move in international politics is making world leaders wait
How long have some officials had to wait?
Vladimir Putin has always been known as a difficult world leader to work with and he has a long history of making suitable power moves against his international political rivals in order to get them off their game.
One of Putin's favorite political tactics
One of Putin's favorite tactics when dealing with other global leaders has been to make them wait for him for a scheduled meeting, and Putin got very good at this before he launched the invasion of Ukraine.
Making world leaders wait
The Russian President really did enjoy making other world leaders wait and it didn’t matter to Putin if you were a head of state or a foreign official, nearly every level of official has been forced to wait for Putin.
Not even the Pope was spared
Even the Bishop of Rome wasn’t exempt from Putin’s snubs according to Statista, which noted that Pope Francis was left waiting on the Russian President for nearly an hour the last time the two world leaders met in person.
A long list of victims
Statista put together a long list of world leaders who have been left waiting by Putin, and while the times are approximate estimates of how long each leader was left waiting, some of them are still absolutely astonishing.
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom
Meeting Year: 2003
Time left waiting: 14 minutes
Juan Carlos I
King of Spain
Meeting Year: 2006
Time left waiting: 20 minutes
Park Geun-hye
Former President of South Korea
Time left waiting: 30 minutes
Year: 2013
Barack Obama
Former President of the United States
Meeting Year: 2012
Time left waiting: 40 minutes
Carl XVI Gustaf
King of Sweden
Meeting Year: 2011
Time left waiting: 40 minutes
Tarja Halonen
Former President of Finland
Meeting Year: 2004
Time left waiting: 40 minutes
Donald Trump
Former President of the United States
Meeting Year: 2018
Time left waiting: 45 minutes
Pope Francis
Bishop of Rome Pontifex Maximus Pope
Meeting Year: 2015
Time left waiting: 50 minutes
Narendra Modi
Prime Minister of India
Meeting Year: 2014
Time left waiting: 1 hour
UN General Assembly
Meeting in Paris
Meeting Year: 2015
Time left waiting: 1 hour and 20 minutes
Simon Peres
Former President of Israel
Meeting Year: 2013
Time left waiting: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Tsakhia Elbegdorj
Former President of Mongolia
Meeting Year: 2014
Time left waiting: 2 hours
Shinzo Abe
Former Prime Minister of Japan
Meeting Year: 2016
Time left waiting: 3 hours
Alexander Lukashenko
President of Belarus
Meeting Year: 2013
Time left waiting: 3 hours
Yulia Tymoshenko
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine
Meeting Year: 2009
Time left waiting: 3 hours
Viktor Yanukovych
Former President of Ukraine
Meeting Year: 2012
Time left waiting: 4 hours
Angela Merkel
Former Chancellor of Germany
Meeting Year: 2014
Time left waiting: 4 hours and 15 minutes
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