American democracy, society and culture gave us Trump.

You can't blame Putin for what America is.

Putin has to work with whatever idiot is in the Whitehouse.

At least Putin and Trump are talking and have agreed a) cooperation in Syria, and b) stop interfering in each other's internal politics and have agreed on a cyber-security protocol. 

This is better than war notwithstanding what the likes of the warmonger Senator McCain would prefer.