The death of the reset button

Michael Weiss at Foreign Policy has a great article retracing the developments where by Russia came to have the US right where it wanted it.  Weiss explores what has happened on all the fronts of the US - Russia relationship: Syria, Iran, energy policy, the sovereignty of the peripheral post-Soviet states. When you have a leader like the MEC, who is driven by his megalomania to be enshrined by history as the great kumbaya lightworker, because this is the real world and not some blank slate on which he can work his supposed magic, what actually results is that said lightworker-aspirant becomes the bitch of a steely-eyed autocrat like Putin.  And he assumes this role in full view of the cameras of the whole world's media outlets.