Obama, despite the smoke and mirrors crap, has gone a long way to help Putin. From horrible (for us) missile defense deals to the equally horrendous NewSTART nuke Treaty with Russia. That plus the above mention Iranian nuke deal that Putin claims to have helped write. Also his (Obama's) slashing of our military. All of this was designed to weaken the US's position on the world stage and beef up others', such as Russia, the ChiComs, Iran...
From Real Clear Politics, Sept 10, 2015...
"In a 2014 New Yorker interview, Obama said his goal was to create a 'new equilibrium' in the Middle East.
In the short run, at least, his signature diplomatic undertaking can be counted on to bring more violence to this volatile region.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the [Obama-Putin Iran deal] agreement is formally known, provides the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism an infusion of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion of unfrozen assets and a great deal more of continuing revenues as businesses and governments around the world rush to profit from oil-and-gas-rich Iran's reintegration into the world economy.
The agreement relaxes the international isolation of the Islamic Republic and ratifies Tehran's status as a nuclear threshold state. And it relieves restrictions on Iran's acquisition of weapons, including ballistic missiles. ..."
How many are complicit? How many voted aye?
Putin is a bunch of bad things, but he is not a traitor to his country.
The people at the apex of power in this nation are traitors, each and every one of them.