United States Presidnet barrack Obama has said that Russian president Vladimir Putin is no "chess master" when it comes to maneuvering the West or the U.S. President as the Russian economy is facing a major financial crisis.
Obama said how there was a plethora of stories about Putin being the chess master.
But pointing to the Russia's current economic contractions, Obama said that he did not come across as anybody who had rolled him down.
Obama also said that the U.S. is extremely firm with nations violating its interests or international law, reported CNN.
Obama disagreed with the knee-jerk foreign policy wherein thinking about the shooting of any kind comes as the second step.
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