In today's world... I wonder if Obama cries at nights for not being able to do anything differently, even if he would have wanted to? Whatever one might think of Putin, it feels like he is in complete control, while thinking about Obama, the word that springs to mind is "scapegoat". In Gorbachev's days, those roles might well have been reversed.
I have already posted about this. The election of Obama as the POTUS was a great tragedy to the US. But at the same time, it was a god given gift to the people outside the EU. For sure, he has made some mistakes such as the invasion of Libya, but as compared to Bush and the others in the blood thirsty gang, Obama has proven himself to be a coward and an outright inefficient nincompoop.