Biden: "Putin has no soul"
The U.S. Vice President, Joe Biden, accused the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, that he has no soul, after a meeting between the two leaders made in 2011, according to an article in the magazine New Yorker.
Biden spoke to the magazine about his meeting with Putin in 2011, who at that time was Prime Minister:
"I told him, Prime Minister, I look into your eyes and think you don't have a soul. He looked at me, smiled and said, 'We both understand each other'".
The assessment of Biden is in stark contrast to that of former U.S. President George W. Bush, who had said after his first meeting with Putin in 2001:
"I looked this man in the eye, I was able to see his soul".
These comments were published as the United States and other Western powers have expressed their anger against Russia for last week's shooting of a Malaysian aircraft in eastern Ukraine, an area controlled by pro-Russian separatists. All 298 passengers were killed in the crash.
The United States and other countries accuse the rebels for the shooting and urged President Putin to take charge.
Also, they have expressed their disgust about the "mismanagement of the remains of victims of the rebels" from the site of the crash.
Biden, who has an important role in the foreign policy of the Obama administration, spoke about his meeting with Ukrainian officials earlier this year, according to the magazine article published:
"I don't think we were thinking more like the Cold War, for various reasons. Nobody is on the same level with us. Nobody is close. Besides anyone crazy enough to push a button, there is nothing in military terms that could make Putin to radically change American interests".
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