How's that reset working out?

Russia casts aside 1987 nuclear weapons treaty.

Russia is engaged in a major violation of the terms of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with the United States by building a new medium-range missile banned under the accord, according to U.S. intelligence officials. 

Disclosure of the treaty violation comes as President Barack Obama last week called for a new round of arms negotiations with Moscow aimed at cutting deployed nuclear warheads by one-third.

But of course. Obama carries no heft on the international stage. No foreign leader cares what he says because his words are unavailingly, repetitively empty. As Bret Stephens writes of the Snowden affair,

But however the Snowden episode turns out (and don't be surprised if the Russians wind up handing him over in exchange for an unspecified American favor), what it mainly illustrates is that we are living in an age of American impotence. The Obama administration has decided it wants out from nettlesome foreign entanglements, and now finds itself surprised that it's running out of foreign influence.

In fact, news just broke as I am typing this that Russia's foreign minister said this morning that Snowden arrived at Moscow's airport in "transit" status and that since he has broken no law in Russia he will be allowed to continue unhindered to wherever he wants to fly next. The minister added that he hopes this won't affect American-Russian relations.

Oh, it won't, trust us, it won't.

Update: If a picture is worth a thousand words, here are 4,000 words worth that reveal volumes more.