“We have a saying: ‘Don’t be mad at the mirror if you are ugly,'” he said. “It has nothing to do with you personally. But if somebody blames us for something, what I say is, why don’t you look at yourselves? You will see yourselves in the mirror, not us.”
When asked about Biden criticizing Russia for adding to “global instability,” he says the U.S. is doing likewise. And pointed to Libya, Afghanistan, and Syria. Putin repeated that Russians aren’t cracking down on internal dissent, he said, any more than the U.S. is doing.
He even talked about the arrests of suspects in the U.S. Capitol riot. And the death of protestor Ashli Babbit claiming it proves the U.S. also targets its citizens for differing political opinions.
Did Biden really tell Putin he has “no soul”?
More than once, Biden has told a story that when he was vice-president he told Putin to his face that he doesn’t “have a soul.” This was supposed to have taken place during a 2011 Kremlin visit.
“I do not remember this particular part of our conversations,” Putin replied when asked about Biden’s characterization.
