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John Bolton, former national security adviser to the US president, on Putin and talks with him:
He is tough and cold-blooded. But he is a professional.
He always seemed confident. And he understood English, which is always an advantage. He did not usually speak English.
He would let his translator do the translating, but he knew what we were talking about and then he could listen again when his translator translated it. Sometimes he would correct his interpreter in English when she translated what he was saying. But he was always very direct.
In his first meeting with Rumsfeld (former US Secretary of Defense) after 9/11, he talked about Russia's experience with the Taliban and other terrorists in the region. And at one point, he told Rumsfeld, the Taliban asked Russia for something and Putin said:
"We told them exactly that," and he used that gesture [showing the figure]. And we were all a bit surprised by it.
Rumsfeld thought for a second. He said: "Well, we don't do it quite like that, but we get the point." [Some biographers say he learned from Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and others to project power.
Is that what you saw in him?]
Well, I think he felt Russia was an important player in the world and he wanted to show confidence.
But I didn't see it as posturing. I saw it as someone who was sitting on top of 5,000 or 10,000 nukes and knew he had power.