The rat is out of the bag!

It’s fair to say the U.S. and Russia have had their, well, differences in view of what makes responsible foreign policy. And on Tuesday, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin revealed what he really thinks about how the U.S. deals with other nations. Frankly, he’s not impressed:

“They sit there across the Pond, and sometimes I think they feel like they’re in a lab and they’re running experiments on rats and not understanding the consequences of what they are doing,” the Russian president said at a press conference.

In his first detailed remarks about the tensions in Ukraine, Putin lashed out at Western powers, implying they had engineered the “unconstitutional” regime-change in the eastern European country. To him, ousted Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych remains the legitimate leader of his country’s southwestern neighbor, and the “nationalists and radical extremists rampant” on the streets of Kiev are a “major concern”.

Putin’s intense and sometimes agitated comments stirred up the Twittersphere, with some people calling him “crazy” and questioning his honesty.