Whilst I didn't necessarily disagree with the Obama handling with Iran - the diplomacy was a pig with lipstick to borrow a popular populist political analogy. Iran can get a bomb if Iran gets a bomb, and at best what Obama did was a hail mary on a rather hopeful delaying of the inevitable. It wasn't masterful diplomacy, it was simple prisoners' dilemma. Coincidentally, he got a Nobel prize for it before it was proven as to whether it worked or not. And now, we will never truly know that answer.
One of the engaged countries posses at least equal ability to wipe us off the map, the other never will even with an arsenal maxed out at what they could afford. I will point out, also, that we engaged and worked with Stalin out of necessity. It seems the current choice is between a China who steals our technology or the Russians who don't like hostile war hawks. (See:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-coming-american-russian-alliance-against-china/) You can bet that we've carried out similar attacks on them and our media is not going to report that piece just like the media did not report about Stuxnet until years later.
We had known Russian trolls on this forum during the Obama years; I watched the guy closely. It's nothing more than a poor man's cyber warfare. As the comment came to the public today, Russia sought to do nothing more than tarnish Clinton - which it turns out was something she was pretty good at doing herself. I've seen everything from racism to sexism to Russia blamed, but the truth was simply that she was a poor candidate, perfectly suited for any other time but right now.
I think it's curious how conservatives are chided for choosing the better of two evils but liberals are perfectly happy to read national diplomatic policy into their favorite clips of Scripture to bludgeon conservatives with.
All of these choices are political, just as President Obama made a political choice not to publicize the matter at the time. But please, drop the charade saying that it's just those darn conservatives and be honest about it.