POTUS and Vanity In Mother Russia

At first, President Obama let Dmitri Medvedev believe they were the two who needed to be talking
after the American elections.
Putin may have spun out of his potential political grave in some sort of rage at that time.
Then, President Obama won the American election by more than a million votes. What nerve...
Lastly, Putin is said to have won the Russian election, questionably, with vociferous protests
in his country after that vote.
That was the last straw. How much can the vain be publicly one upped?!