Obama said last week sanctions would be lifted if there was peace in Ukraine. Petroshenko said last
week peace was at hand. Putin was not out to conquer all of Ukraine, "just" Crimea and the east. "Only" 3,000 were killed in Russia's invasions of Ukraine. Obama was right to stay out of Ukraine militarily, he was right to impose sanctions, he will be right to lift them if the peace is codified.
“We are absolutely interested in bringing the ties to normal but it was not us who destroyed them. Now they require what the American would probably call a ‘reset.'”..“The current US administration is destroying today much of the cooperation structure that it created itself along with us. Most likely, something more will come up – a reset No2 or a reset 2.0,”.
-Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
No. Just say "no" to resets. No normalization. Abnormal is the new "normal." Lifting sanctions doesn't mean the U.S. should again be "partners" with Russia. The American people and the Russian people must not be enemies and cannot be friends. Again and again since 1917 the Russian people, generation after generation of them, have shown themselves to be barbarians, worthy of partnership only with other barbarians, unworthy of friendship with freedom-loving peoples. No NATO cooperation with Russia, no military sales, withdraw from discretionary relations. There is no going back from this year. Farewell to Russia.
