Vice President Joe Biden offered his thoughts on Russia in an interview with the Wall Street Journal published yesterday. Russians, he said, "have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector and structure that is not likely to be able to withstand the next 15 years, they're in a situation where the world is changing before them and they're clinging to something in the past that is not sustainable."
I wonder what President Obama's reaction was to these comments, given his efforts to "reset" relations with Russia and his pledge last month with President Dmitry Medvedev to finalize a nuclear weapons treaty by December?
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