Friday on Newsmax TV’s “The Hard Line,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said Russian President Vladimir Putin knows President Barack Obama will not fight back against the Russian airstrikes on Syrian civilians who oppose President Bashar al-Assad so he slapped him in the face by sitting down with Obama at the United Nations “and just two days later have some military attaché deliver a statement to our people in an embassy in Baghdad saying that they are carrying out these bombing missions.” King said, “Unfortunately, he [Putin] believes that President Obama is not going to fight back … He will not fight back unless it’s a glaring attack. I think what you are going to see is — it’s going to be incremental moves by Putin, and President Obama is going to say, ‘Do you really want to go to war over this?’ And we’re going to threaten more sanctions. Just like in Ukraine. It was not a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but they take piece by piece, region by region — and that is what we’re going to see in Syria. They’re expanding.” He continued, “I don’t think you’re going to see anything frontally against us by Putin. You’re going to