China was the first to set the tone, refusing to greet Barack Obama with full honors at the airport, a gesture that resulted in the embarrassing photo of an American president exiting Air Force One via the emergency exit at the rear of the plane.

And once the G20 officially commenced, Barack Obama was repeatedly snubbed, overlooked, and largely ignored.

Then came the meeting between Mr. Obama and Russian President, Vladimir Putin.

Putin’s disregard for the American president is said to have only intensified in recent months. Putin sees Obama as something of an irrelevant child, a leader whose time has already come and gone while Putin himself has only broadened his own international influence within the power vacuum created by a too often tepid and meek Obama presidency – a view shared by many others world leaders, including G20 host nation, China.

And for Vladimir Putin, Obama’s repeated allegiance to the Muslim world has become a matter of deep and personal dislike toward Obama. Where Putin has long fought against radical Islam, he has watched an American president just as enthusiastically defend it, even after that radicalism took American lives. It is a display of turning against your own country that Putin finds most  incomprehensible. He simply cannot understand how an American president can be so seemingly…un-American.

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