I was thinking this as I heard other people make a similar metaphor:Ian Fleming called the Chess Grand Master in From Russia With Love, "The Wizard of Ice".
In this serious, possible pre-curser to war, diplomatic Chess Board, Putin has been the 'Wizard of Ice' Chess Grand Master to Obama's Community Organizer's Checkers.
The American Spectator : Passive and Contemptible
Our president prepares for his big showdown.
With public opinion against him, President Obama took his act to the G-20 meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia hoping that he could persuade European leaders to join in his idea of punishing but not destroying Syrian dictator Bashar Assad for his use of chemical weapons.
The Europeans were barely kept awake by Obama’s plea, issuing a statement that they’d like a “clear and strong response” to Assad’s use of chemical weapons, at least if someone else did it. The UK’s David Cameron, previously rebuked by Parliament on Syria, was nowhere to be seen.
Much more visible was another European leader, Vladimir Putin, who openly mocked Obama saying that Russia was helping Syria and would continue to do so. Putin also said that he’d had a “very meaningful, constructive and friendly conversation” with Obama in which he apparently told Obama to take a hike.
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