Improved relations with Russia should not involve a) defying your own intelligence organizations conclusions regarding election interference, b) not wanting to

Improved relations with Russia should not involve a) defying your own intelligence organizations conclusions regarding election interference, b) not wanting to impose sanctions on oligarchs and high government officials that have engaged in obvious criminal behavior (money laundering etc), c) not condemning face-to-face, the Russian governments actions of assassinations on an ally's soil (UK), or its disgusting actions to stop democratic involvement in Russia, or the suspicious deaths of opposition political leaders, or the oppression of LGBT people, etc. Russia is a two-bit crime organization that happens to hold land. Its GDP is less than Italy and its controlled by a dictator that has consolidated power using patronage. There is no need for "improved relations" with that nation until it has reformed.