Terrell Jermaine Starr: On Putin, the GOP presidential candidates’ tough talk is empty rhetoric
US President Barack Obama and Russia's President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo 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.
Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin ended their months-long silence this week with a face-to-face meeting that Secretary of State John Kerry called "genuinely constructive [and] very civil."