Is it a reaction to libs overblowing Russiagate? Is it because Putin is allies with Assad? Is it running off the nostalgic fumes of Lenin/Stalin? Is it blank anti-American contrarianism?
Just seems like a mobster tyrant who jails his political opponents and poisons non-compliant oligarchs. The treatment of LGBTQ people is pretty shitty too.
Just seems like a strange sentiment to carry in a leftist community.
Putin also spent at least half a decade trying to get Bush and the US foreign establishment to like him but the US is so smoothbrained they repeatedly kicked him in the shins instead