Putin allegedly said off the record
"negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon.
The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game."
Don't dismiss yourself too quickly. The southern slackjaw you're arguing with hates Obama so much that he believes Russian analysis of the evidence over our, and our allies', analysis of it--Obama's motives are suspect, but not the russkies.