BBC body language expert says Trump was more dominant than Putin

[Funktastic Dog]

[QUOTE=Coyoteze;52460104]Holy passive-aggressiveness, Batman. There's countless of studies of this stuff and it's barely a google-search away, you know.
[url]https://www.princeton.edu/news/2013/01/15/dont-read-my-lips-body-language-trumps-face-conveying-intense-emotions[/url]
[url]http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/july/virtual-reality-innovation-072414.html[/url]
[url]https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spycatcher/200911/the-psychology-body-language[/url]
[url]https://www.forbes.com/sites/nickmorgan/2012/10/25/7-surprising-truths-about-body-language/#5fd72b80509f[/url]

If anyone tells you a simple handshake is a signal of power, they're either lying or uninformed. I never said or implied this. I'm talking about [I][B]subtle [/B][/I]body clues - ie fidgeting. Things you do not think about or control. When I say in my first post that the way Trump goes about feeling textbook I literally mean it feels like whoever his coach is opened a book about body language or [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY1K_IefjSA"]watched this terrible documentary[/URL] and said "Yeah, that'll do" without realizing exactly how exaggerated it is.[/QUOTE]

I was just making a bit of a goof. It wasn't meant as an insult, it was just a joke that didn't go over.

Sorry!

[Nahash]

[QUOTE=gudman;52452917]That's interesting, but no, I said exactly what I said, Putin was organizing leisure time for soviet officials, no strings attached. That's what his job was in Dresden, GDR. KGB had pretty much no intelligence network of their own in East Germany so his assignment there was exactly what it said on the can - director of the "USSR-GDR Friendship Centre". A club organizer.

As for his more "KGB-like" activities, that would be him serving in Second Chief directorate during the early career: counter-intelligence, but mostly wrongthink, in Leningrad of all places - which in practice meant that he was recruiting students as snitches.

One thing Putin as the president and his team are good at - creating and spreading a myth. Most people believe that he was some kind of great intelligence officer with tons of experience and almost uncanny abilities when in reality he was at the bottom of the barrel and his KGB career was abruptly ended by the fall of the Soviet Union. He's a corrupt official with an extremely low (gopnik-low) social background, that's pretty much it for Putin.[/QUOTE]

So then how did this bottom of the barrel KGB official become the most powerful man in Russia?