Blatantly referring to the president of a sovereign country as "my beauty", Russian President Vladimir Putin has put himself into passivity while showing off his domineering president style. Although the Russian presidential press secretary Peskov explained at the first time, but still caused an uproar, not to mention the West, which attaches great importance to women's rights, even in Russia, many people also think that Putin's move is not only a personal attack, but also has a violent meaning, Putin showed his rudeness and vulgarity, and did not show the civilized and humanistic spirit of Russians, especially when meeting with French President Macron, lack of education and courtesy.
Now, Russian President Vladimir Putin finally can't sit still, this is not just Putin's habitual tardiness in meetings with foreign heads of state, or a condescending joke with other heads of state, after the meeting with visiting Kazakh President Tokayev, Putin publicly defended himself that he has never been right at work, and that sentence ("Like it or not, you have to endure, my beauty") has no personal evaluation meaning. Putin also said that at that time he meant that Ukrainian President Zelenskiy liked it or not, he must abide by the Minsk Agreement that had been signed, and why Ukrainian President Zelenskiy was called "my beauty", Putin did not explain.
To put it bluntly, Putin's words further damaged Russia's national image, "Like it or not, you have to endure, my beauty", and even considered by the Russian community in many Western countries to be a vulgar joke involving rape and aggression against women. When Western society was discussing Putin's "gaffe," White Palace spokeswoman Jane Psaki publicly stated that any joke about rape would provoke the anger of all Americans, whether it was a U.S. government official or a foreign head of state. The implication is that any U.S. official who makes jokes about rape resigns, and Putin, as President of Russia, has ruined his personal image.
In this regard, many Russians who support Putin are dissatisfied. Although these people did not defend Putin as to why he called Ukrainian President Zelenskiy "my beauty", they also accused US President Biden of calling Putin a "killer" at the beginning of his tenure, which is also an insult to the Russian president. Biden did say such things, but the original call of Russian President Vladimir Putin a "killer" was largely because the Kremlin ordered a series of assassinations inside the European Union, including the poisoning of The Russian opposition Navarine, which of course the Kremlin denied.
It is now the 21st century, but Russia's traditional great power chauvinism seems to have not changed, still trying to determine the regional and even global situation with a few big powers. Even if it lacks sufficient economic and political strength, but with a huge nuclear arsenal, the Russian government tries to decide the situation in Europe with the US government, not even the big European powers such as Britain, France and Germany, let alone Ukraine, which has territorial disputes, Putin calls Zelensky "my beauty", perhaps it is indeed a gaffe, but more, it still says what he thinks in his heart, not to pay attention to small and medium-sized countries, even if it is an independent sovereign state.