What is there to gain from abolishing sanctions? Are we about to legitimize and compromise the sovereignty of nation States like Ukraine and Georgia.
What about our allies. Are we going to destabilize them now, some of which are the biggest Oil producers of which our economy is heavily reliant upon?
There is little to gain from defeating DAESH.
All we want now is a Kurdish state and it appears we are close to this now.
America isn't about to cosy up to Pootin because such a thing would be outrageous to EU, NATO, GULF STATES, Japan, Australia and many more.
In other words, friendship with pootin has a price tag, and Theresa May has already indicated that Britain will stand by its morals when it comes to its relationship with USA. We all will.
We are not interested in pootin. Congress isn't interested. NATO and EU are not interested.
We are in no position to allow pootin to con us into a long term and unwinnable adventure in Syria of all places. pootin will have to fight that one himself.
We want Raqqa but that is as far as we go with it.
We are willing to cooperate and even tolerate Trump as he is the elected POTUS and America is our friend and partner, but Pootin is persona NON Gratia for all of us. Our entire alliance.
we are not easily fooled with a simple stroke of our ego like when pootin said he admired Trump.
We as allies DO NOT admire TRUMP, we just respect the office of the POTUS as an institution and the democratic will of the American People. that's the difference. america is however our partner. Pootin will never be. Not anytime soon anyway.
pootin on the other hand disrespected the office of the POTUS and even meddled into internal American affairs and its democratic process. that is pretty much an act of war and not conducive to better relations and a dangerous precedent.