Putin will be gone before 2024. His system is breaking.
I’m just saying what happened.
Obama (and Clinton) grasped for grand strategic schemes using proxies and secret wars, without concern for consequences - and he failed miserably, and created great chaos.
A strategic rival simply stepped in the way and blocked him.
Maybe Putin will wind up hanging from a lamppost some day, but Russia is not going anywhere. Obama has also cemented in place Russia and China as long-term strategic rivals, so he has created long term barriers to USA policy everywhere.