Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came into office promising to “reset” Russian relations that purportedly had been unilaterally ruined by the Iraqi warmonger George W. Bush, who, in their view, had overreacted to Putin’s Georgia aggressions by siding with the breakaway Ossetians.

So was born the progressive “reset” with Vladimir Putin —over the objections of much of the Republican congressional establishment. Missile defense with the Eastern Europe was sidetracked. Russian cyber provocations were mostly ignored. Obama and the Democrats mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 when he warned about Russia’s existential threats to the U.S. A 20 percent sale of North American uranium to Russian interests was approved by the Obama administration. The likes of the Clinton Foundation, Bill Clinton, John Podesta’s associates, and some American anti-fracking activists all at various times were showered both directly and indirectly with Russian financial largess. Thugs roughed up an American citizens in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, and Russian hit-men likely took out a dissident in Washington, D.C. — all to snores of the Obama administration, eager to offer any sort of appeasement in order to save its constantly referenced “reset.”