Clinton is weak, and maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman'.,,,,,,Putin

Russian President Vladmir Putin struck back yesterday at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for comparing his actions in Ukraine to those of Hitler, saying that ‘it’s better not to argue with women’.

According to a Kremlin transcript, the Russian leader went on to suggest that Clinton is weak, and added that ‘maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman'.

‘But when I hear such extreme statements, to me it only means that they don’t have any valid arguments,’ Putin said in an interview with reporters from Radio Europe 1 and French TV channel TF1.

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Touche: Putin didn't hold his punches when he called Clinton weak in his interview with Radio Europe 1 and French TV channel TF1

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Calm down: Putin said that it was 'better not to argue with women'

Clinton made the Hitler remark in March at an event in Long Beach, California. 

In response to a question about Putin’s denial that he sent thousands of Russian troops into eastern Ukraine and subsequent assertion that he had the right to invade the country in the future if he felt Russians living there were in danger, Clinton said ‘Now if this sounds familiar, it's what Hitler did back in the 30s.’

‘Hitler kept saying: “They’re not being treated right. I must go and protect my people.” And that’s what’s gotten everybody so nervous,’ the former secretary of state said, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

The following day, Clinton attempted to put her statement in ‘a little historic perspective,’ telling attendees of an event at the University of California Los Angeles that Putin’s attitude was ‘reminiscent of claims that were made back in the 1930s when Germany under the Nazis kept talking about how they had to protect German minorities in Poland and Czechoslovakia and elsewhere throughout Europe.’

‘I am not making a comparison, certainly. But I am recommending that we perhaps can learn from this tactic that has been used before,’ Clinton added.

The former Obama administration official’s remarks came back into play yesterday when Putin was asked during an interview with European press about his upcoming meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama this Friday.

‘Perhaps, it would be worse if you were meeting with Hillary Clinton?’ one of Putin’s interviewers asked, adding: 'Only a few days ago, she said that what Russia is doing in Eastern Europe resembles what Hitler was doing in the 1930s.’