President Trump is severely handicapped in making nice with the Russians due to the media and democrats. It used to be that politics stopped at the shoreline.
With the democrats, they BEGIN there.
If we ever drift into war with Russia, we can say it began with Obama and McCain and their fake narrative of Russian interference in the election of 2016 lapped up by a willing media. Our politicalized intelligence agencies shamefully helped.
Your reply is the earliest one and it was correct. There actually could have been a new beginning with Russia. The fact is; President Putin hates fools. Sure he knew about possible whatever but it was not to actually effect anything unless America was total fools. All this interference and fake about colluding required President Trump to do something and that caused reaction. This is sad because after years of Obama, Trump and Putin could have had really good conversations toward solutions. Then of course, all these leaks and the enemy within any partnership, damaged it. There will be damage as things go off course.