We need to cultivate Russia into a friend and partner that they have wanted to be for the last 30 some odd years.
And that will be difficult considering the differences between our cultures. Our's has been going downward and accelerating.
I think you're seriously out of your mind. Putin is nothing but old-line KGB, and all those Khrushchev boasts about "we will bury you" are still good with him.
Ordinary Russians are one thing. Russian nationalists and old-school Bolsheviks are another matter entirely. Russia is run by a combination of those two passions.