Relations with Russia were good until Obama got elected. The Democrats, with Hillary as Secretary of State, felt some need to create a bogeyman. The deep state and military industrial complex need a bogeyman too. Putin and Russia were their easy target to achieve their goals.
Under obama, a bogeyman couldn’t be Muslims, who were our real enemies at the time. White men were more politically correct to make our enemy. Democrats “reset” things with Russia that didn’t need resetting. They are the ones that harmed relations with Russia.
Fair summary. They’re meddlers.
Putin created himself, whatever Obama did. He decided to make his creature Yuschenko pull a Lukashemko puppet move.
A stupid move, he wanted overt puppets for the sake of vanity. And just as he was riding highest.
Remember when Obama told Romney, “The 1980s called, they want their foreign policy back.”