Senior U.S. Senator Says Putin Acting Like 'Schoolyard Bully' -- Reuters
(Reuters) - A senior Democratic senator said on Sunday that the U.S.-Russia relationship had become "poisonous" and urged President Barack Obama to consider moving next month's Group of 20 summit away from the Russian city of St. Petersburg.
Charles Schumer, the U.S. Senate's third ranking Democrat and a close Obama ally, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to antagonize the United States by granting American fugitive Edward Snowden asylum for one year.
"President Putin is behaving like a schoolyard bully," Schumer said on the CBS television talk show "Face the Nation." "In my experience, I've learned unless you stand up to that bully, they ask for more and more and more."
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Update #1: Schumer: Putin is ‘school yard bully’ -- Washington Post
Update #2: Senior US Lawmaker Likens Putin to 'Schoolyard Bully' - Report -- RIA Novosti
My Comment: The coffee pot is calling the tea kettle black.
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You pretty much said what I was thinking.
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