re: “The question now is what President Obama and free Europe are going to do about it.”
Obama will ultimately do nothing because there is really nothing he can do about it. He has spent all the years of his presidency putting us into a position of weakness in regard to foreign policy.
He has “apologized” to our enemies around the world on several occasions for the times we intervened or stood up for our interests or freedom’s interests around the world.
He has refocused our intelligence services toward domestic spying and bungled/compromised (or was it intentional?) our foreign intelligence capability.
He has announced to the world that we are reducing our military.
He has demonstrated to the world that we will no longer stand by our word/agreements to our allies.
He has demonstrated to the world that he will give all deference to those nations/political groups who are hostile to us while shunning our allies.
And lastly, Obama told Putin in person that once he was re-elected in 2012, that he would be in a much better position to give away/reduce our military/nuclear standing in Europe, and advised Putin to just “wait” a while until after the election.
He has demonstrated to the world that he has nothing but contempt for the country that he is the president of.