Well Syria is Russia’s friend. Putin saw Kerry’s gaffe as an opportunity to prevent an attack on Syria. Also he saw it as an opportunity to undermine Kerry and Obama. Your leftie media is doing all it can however to spin this Obama’s way. Anyone with half a brain sees Obama as inept and called out by Putin on this one. I loved the way Ban Ky Moon jumped in on it so quickly too but I consider him more of a useful idiot.
Mel
True. In ju jitsu -- or one of them martial arts! -- you use your opponent's own force against him. When Kerry stuck his tongue out and made a sarcastic comment, Putin grabbed it and pulled.
Then what can Kerry or obama say except, "I meant that!"
I'm not so sure of that but you may be correct. The reason I say this is because a day or so before that I wondered why Russia had not yet come out with such a counter.
I think it's possible that Russia had this idea up their sleeve for some time during the whole crisis and I don't think it was shared with Obama during the meetings in Europe.
If such a thing had crossed my mind then surely it had crossed the minds of Putin and other world leaders (except Obama who was blinded by his desire to give radical islam another country).