I am the change that you seek...
pushed back against claims that Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...'s recent military action in Syria is "challenging" American leadership in the middle East.
"If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership," Obama told CBS News' Steve Kroft during an interview that aired on "60 Minutes" on Sunday.
Kroft also asked Obama if he had any indication while meeting with Putin at the United Nations
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General Assembly that Russia was going to launch