Nice try, but no.
Via WaTi:
President Obama said Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “does not have good cards” in the high-stakes feud with the West over Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine.
“Putin does not have good cards, and he actually has not played them as well as sometimes the Western press seems to give him credit for,” Mr. Obama said in a meeting with business leaders at the White House.
The president said the revolution against the Moscow-backed government in Kiev earlier this year “actually took Russia by surprise.”
“There has been an improvisational quality to this whole process,” Mr. Obama said. “And it’s working for him politically, domestically, but profoundly damaging in terms of their economy long-term, not just short-term.”