WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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.
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.

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."

I think Biden was looking in a mirror.
He's a plagiarist liar.

"Biden, who has played a large role in the Obama administration's foreign policy, . . . " well that explains a lot about why this administration's foreign policy blows.

Well suited for a lying administration.

Hoof-in-Mouth Joe!

Biden has no brain!

Biden thinks he is empathetic?

If you look up the manifest of that airliner that was downed, most of them were from the Netherlands.....who has built that underground facility beneath the Colorodo International Airport?

Tell us more!

A Royal Australian Air Force C-17 carrying bodies of victims in the Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 crash arrives at Eindhoven Airbase, the Netherlands, 23 July 2014. The bodies were flown from Kharkiv, Ukraine, to the Netherlands after being recovered from the crash site. The Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed near the Russian border in eastern Ukraine on 17 July. (Credit: EPA)
http://www.vosizneias.com/172623/2014/07/23/eindhoven-netherlands-40-bodies-from-jet-solemnly-returned-to-dutch-soil/

Putin has no conscience.He even said he could order Russian troops to over-run Ukraine and that it will only take them two weeks

They say it was taken out of context. Yet the Europeans haven't released the full conversation, have they?

lmao

Honestly I don't know what Putin is thinking beside trying to go back in time with Russia ... He had no right to do what he did in Ukraine going in under false pretenses and hiding their uniforms an use military action ... and protecting Syria's leader where parts of Isis are coming out of ... at one time i might have said what a leader he was and wow ... and loved the Pope as many others do ...not now ... he is not working for a better future for anyone anymore ... seems like he wants to be isolated like North Korea ...oh and look who just came out of his hole ... lol