I did not mention Obama and am in no way an Obama apologist.
To a larger extent, my point that was touched on in a previous post is that to understand Putin, one must understand the Russian mindset.
Obama has failed in that respect as did Bush and every American president for the last 100 years, except Reagan.
I’m pretty sure you’re wrong. Truman was the first president to confront the Russians in a direct and honest way. Nixon, whom I’m no fan of, did too. Kennedy talked a good game, but was feckless in the implementation. Naiveté about Russia and communism was not true of all US leaders. On the world stage, Churchill was right from day one. He wanted to strangle communism in its cradle. As for Obama, the number of things he’s wrong on are so numerous as to be impossible to count.