Garry Kasparov: Putin takes a victory lap while Obama watches
US President Barack Obama and Russia's President Vladimir Putin walk out for a photo op ahead of a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on Sept. 28, 2015 in New York.
With the Middle East in chaos and a belligerent Russian regime stoking the turmoil, the dueling speeches at the United Nations on Sept. 28 by presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin might have offered new insight. What the world saw instead was entirely predictable.