People who want “good relations” with Putin don’t get one thing.
The people who run Russia are mostly not good in the head.
I mean, when the official Russian govt. newspaper published a “serious” article about how the Russian military “ekstrasensy”/psychics connected to Madeleine Albright’s mind and found out her hostile Russophobic plans to divide Russia and steal its natural resources, it was just the beginning.
Meet new head of Putin’s administration, Anton Vaino, a previously unknown entity who has suddenly become one of the most important figures:

en.wikipedia.org

Here’s an article he published in 2012:

Just one excerpt from this pile of nonsense:

“Prognosis and prevention of crisis co-Events on the road map of development is performed with the help of the nooscope (described in more than 50 patents) - a device, consisting of a network of space scanners used for receiving and registering of changes in the biosphere and activity of humans with the help of transactions - film frames of co-Event - image of the crossroads of the space-time-life. The sensor network of the nooscope, starting with the new generation bank cards and up to the “smart dust”, unambiguously identifies co-Events in space and time”.

You cannot see these people as fully rational actors. They are either “grown-up” children or nutters.