Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the 2009 “reset” with Moscow “worked,” a claim seemingly divorced from all reality considering Russia‘s involvement in the violence in Ukraine and Syria.

“The reset worked,” Clinton said during an NPR interview. “It was an effort to try to obtain Russian cooperation on key objectives while Medvedev was president, and of course [Russian President Vladimir Putin] still pulled the strings but he gave Medvedev a certain amount of independence to negotiate, number one, a new arms control treaty which was absolutely necessary.