Vladimir Putin gave a talk today. What I am picking up from Twitter is that it was mostly about improving social conditions in Russia, but Putin seems to have though he needed to get into the “My button is bigger than yours” discussion.
The nuclear trolling at the end of Putin’s address seems to be entirely aimed at gathering as many alarmist and jingoistic headlines and comments in the West as possible and then contrasting them on Kremlin TV against the overall progressive nature of the speech.
— Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) March 1, 2018