President Joe Biden is not known for being “soft” on Russia. In 2011, he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t have a soul. Recently, he agreed with a reporter’s characterization of Putin as a “killer.” Putin, for his part, quipped in response, “it takes one to know one,” and sardonically wished Biden “good health.” Throughout the Trump years, Biden decried the former president’s downplaying of threats from Moscow, his courting of Russian interference in U.S. democracy, and his personal warmthtoward Putin.
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