A closer look
Soviet intelligence agents attempted to blackmail Indonesian President Sukarno during the Cold War by secretly filming him participating in a massive, enthusiastic orgy with Russian flight attendants in a bugged Moscow hotel room. The KGB confidently approached the visiting leader with the illicit tapes, assuming he would immediately surrender to their political demands to avoid the catastrophic destruction of his international reputation. Instead of panicking, Sukarno was absolutely thrilled by the footage and practically begged the bewildered spies for extra copies, proudly explaining that his citizens would consider it a tremendous display of his masculine vitality. The blackmail attempt failed spectacularly, proving that you cannot mathematically shame a man whose self-esteem relies entirely on aggressively leaning into the exact behavior you are trying to weaponize against him
