The final installment of my end-of-the-year 2023 reposts

My Interview With Putin

This is probably going to be my final previously published article for the end-of-the-year 2023. This satirical article was originally published on LinkedIn in June of 2022, just four months after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February of 2022. At the time, things were (and still are) pretty grim, so I thought that adding a little sarcasm and a large dose of humor at the expense of Vladimir Putin would be just what was needed. It turns out that most readers felt the same way! I hope you will enjoy it now as much as they did then.

So, without further ado, here is the reposting of:

My Interview With Putin

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After many weeks of back and forth between Putin’s staff and mine, I was finally able to conduct a four hour interview with the President of Russia, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. I asked Putin a number of questions about the war in Ukraine. For the most part he was coo…