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will start in   • Info    • Comments   Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) --
On today's "Global Outlook," Charles Kupchan, senior fellow at
the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses Russian President
Vladimir Putin's op-ed in the New York Times. He speaks with
Trish Regan on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source:
Bloomberg)  We are asking today whether vladimir putin is trying
to win the war of words against president obama.  A senior
fellow at the council for foreign relations joins us now from
washington dc.  Is putin trying to take advantage of this
situation where you have a seemingly passive president when it
comes to military action?  A president who is going to congress
to ask permission, is this an opportunity for putin to try to
exercise his political might?  Putin over the last couple of
years since he came back to the kremlin as president hasn't
missed any opportunity to try to trip up the u.s. government or
to stick his thumb in obama's i.