When Joe Biden said in 2011 that he had looked into (Putin’s) eyes and found that he had no soul, Vladimir Putin’s response was: “We understand one another.” With Biden elected the forty-sixth president of the United States, and Putin allowed under the recent constitutional amendments to stay in the Kremlin through 2036, this promises to be one of the coldest personal relationships between the U.S. and Russian leaders.
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Dmitry Trenin: Joe Biden’s foreign policy and Russia
Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during an event at Iowa Central Community College on Jan. 21, 2020 in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
