It would appear that the world leadership vacuum is in full force. I cannot recall a time in the last thirty years, where a nuclear power (Pakistan in particular) would ever tell the world to pack sand and go ahead with nuclear proliferation. Not long ago I would have bet against Iran ever having a nuclear bomb, much less viable intermediate range or longer ballistic missiles. Neither can I recall a time when life meant so little to so many that such a nuclear arms race would be met by a blasé attitude by an American President.

In this new paradigm, a former Russian KGB Colonel is on the brink of supplanting America's roll of leadership. The Chinese are slowly but surely building artificial land mass in the South China sea, arming them, and even building light houses underneath the noses of the U.S., that by maritime law forces a showdown, or at least should have but didn't.

India fields a probe to Mars at a fraction of time and cost compared to the west. The Chinese land multiple Probes and rovers on the moon, and the U.S. has to use Russian designed and built rocket engines for many of its space applications. Meanwhile the POTUS takes credit for programs that were already in progress before 2008.

China builds multiple AP 1000 nuclear reactors in less than five years, where America apparently cannot build even one on time, much less on budget. Further, their test bed for a fusion research reactor is years ahead of ours. Meanwhile we kill the coal industry domestically and are on the verge of doing the same with oil.

What does the POTUS have to say for himself? Why he's the leader on climate change, just ask him.

The POTUS should have read Machiavelli 'The Prince'. Especially chapter XIV, first paragraph where he says;
"For amongst other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised, and this is one of those ignominies against which a prince ought to guard himself, as shown later on. Because there is nothing proportionate between the armed and the unarmed; and it is not reasonable that he who is armed should yield obedience willingly to him that is unarmed....

Because, there being in the one disdain and in the other suspicion, it is not possible for them to work together."
That was written in 1512. Putting Obama next to Putin it is clear who has read it and taken it to heart. The words above have proven true in the last seven years, and especially since Obama's infamous red line. America and it's President have definitely been treated with disdain by the world powers as of late. Russia rubs our nose in that 'red line', and all our POTUS has to say about it is he's leading on climate change.....

Another quote the POTUS should have read;
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Payne; Thoughts On Defensive War, 1775

He's an idiot leading the U.S. to ruin. What else can be said?