Washington – Vladimir Putin has no soul, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden concluded after meeting with the Russian leader at the Kremlin in 2011, according to an article in the New Yorker published online on Monday.
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Biden told the magazine about his 2011 visit with Putin, who at the time was prime minister, and said he found himself just inches away from the Russian leader.
“I said, ‘Mr. Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul,'” Biden told the magazine. “He looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, ‘We understand one another.'”
Biden’s assessment is in stark contrast to that of former U.S. President George W. Bush, who famously said after his first meeting with Putin in 2001: “I looked the man in the eye … I was able to get a sense of his soul.”
Biden’s comments were published as the United States and other Western powers expressed outrage with Russia over the downing last week of a Malaysian airliner over a part of eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Russia separatists. All 298 people aboard died.
The United States and other nations blame the rebels for shooting down the plane and they have demanded that Russia and its president, Putin, take responsibility. They also have expressed disgust over the rebels’ mishandling of victims’ bodies at the crash site. [ID:nL2N0PV08X]
Biden, who has played a large role in the Obama administration’s foreign policy, also discussed his meeting with Ukrainian officials earlier this year, according to the article in the New Yorker’s July 28 issue.
The officials had been seeking U.S. military aid, according to the report, but Biden said the United States could only provide minimal support.
“We no longer think in Cold War terms, for several reasons,” the vice president told the magazine. “One, no one is our equal. No one is close. Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.”
How dare he say different than Bush, Bush looked in his eye, and felt he was serious.
Oh, I forgot, Putin relations is Obama’s fault.
If Biden would have guts he would say: Hamas has no soul!
One has no soul, the other has no brain. Nu?
Oh right
The vp of the obama regime
And who is it exactly
Promoting a moral depraved society???
Who is it who has lost their soul?
How different PM Putin may g-d be with him
A man who defies the voices ruling today
In the highest helms of society
Those who
Wish destruction in our future children
Promoting educational books
In where thenchild is coerced in thinking
There is another element to a Father and Mother figure r”l
And PM Putin he crushes them
And do not dare blowing their folly
In his rulership !
Where as you biden
Shame on you-
Where the complete opposite is true
And that is y
Russia will rise
And sadly her opponent will
Fold like cheap camera