At what cost. Appeasement has never worked and Russians recognise it as weakness.
Bringing it back to Trump, don’t you think it’s rather odd to have Russia and the US deciding on the future of another country while trying to carve up its natural assets between them. This doesn’t make you feel somewhat uncomfortable? No moral issues with that hostile takeover and asset stripping?
Maybe Trump thinks Russia, China, etc are the future and he wants to align the US with them, but they are fundamentally different systems.