Washington – U.S. Vice President Biden: Putin Has No Soul

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    FILE - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) speaks with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) during their meeting in Moscow, Russia 10 March 2011. EPAWashington – 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.”


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    Realistic
    Realistic
    9 years ago

    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.

    Secular
    Secular
    9 years ago

    If Biden would have guts he would say: Hamas has no soul!

    AlbertEinstein
    AlbertEinstein
    9 years ago

    One has no soul, the other has no brain. Nu?

    Conscience
    Conscience
    9 years ago

    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