Putin is a thug. So why would we back a thug? Maybe we shouldn’t antagonize him, I agree.
He may be a thug. I agree. However, he is a Russian first--not a Deep State thug. That is the issue and why he is being brought down.
The corrupt US State Department, corrupt NSC, corrupt DC GOP Deep Staters and the corrupt American Democrat Party (collectively the corrupt Ukrainian shit show on parade during the “impeachment”) have been backing, then overthrowing, corrupt Ukrainian thug oligarchs since Obama’s highballing gravy train got rolling. The aforementioned corrupt US thug strongmen have been backing thugs in Ukraine for a while already.