You may know Putin as the President of Russia. But he is not like other presidents. He's a "macho" president. The "quintessential picture of masculinity" president. The man's man "smell the dirt under his fingernails, feel the sun's blazing rays radiating off his chest, scrub the dried blood from his bare hands" president.

Or at least that's what his recent vacation photos and videos would have you believe.

Wait, what did you expect? That Putin would go play golf in a red hat? Putin doesn't have time for hitting a ball with a stick while wearing an ill-fitting polo shirt.

No, he takes his adventures to the outdoors and explores. He doesn't play a game that allows nature to tame him; he tames nature.

This is a man, after all, who inspired a meme about him riding a bear and yet could probably very easily tame such a bear.


http://mashable.com/2017/08/07/the-swaggering-masculinity-of-vladimir-putin.amp