Putin is floundering as his oligarchy-pals go under and the Russkie economy sours like that cream on top of borscht. So when Obama offers a linkage package ala Jimmy Earl Carter, they sense weakness and take the slender young man’s offer to trade missiles for a whole bunch of things [except of course to alter their relationship with handy-dandy ally Iran].

Obama wanted to play patty-cake and now finds himself getting punched with a mailed fist!