Is such that they will literally defend a man who admitted to
spoiler
taking over 100 fully nude photos of his adopted pre-teen daughter, completely buying his claims that he "had to" for "medical reasons"
entirely because he writes about how the Soviet Union was bad.
I think what they're saying is that Putin really wants a "Crony Capitalist" Neo-USSR. Still dumb for a ton of reasons, not the least of which is that the supposed reason for this is that he doesn't want Ukraine to join NATO, which is the reddest of red lines for literally any possible iteration of the Russian government.