President Barack Obama is not impressed with his Russian counterpart in the aftermath of recent events. In a new NPR interview published Monday morning, Obama dismissed those who hailed Vladimir Putin as a crafty world player when Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine. “Three or four months ago, everybody in Washington was convinced that President Putin was a genius and he had outmaneuvered all of us, and he had bullied, and strategized his way into expanding Russian power,” Obama said, according to NPR’s transcript. “Today, I’d sense that — at least outside of Russia — maybe some people are thinking what …read more
Source: Business Insider
