Putin was handsome in a “power is an aphrodisiac” sort of way. Very confident. Very cool. Very unflappable. And it wasn’t as if there were a bunch of male models out there running the world to compare him to. I don’t know if it was because of all the media attention the US press gave him or the fact that he seemed to be proud to be an allegedly coldhearted killer, but I was fascinated by him.
