This after Hillary tried to frame Russia for helping Trump win in 2016?
Or after the Biden regime has done everything it could to start and continue a proxy war with Russia?
Rent a brain and come up with an argument that makes a little bit of sense.
It is merely a pictorial essay that, from time to time, the 'vilified' meet with the 'vilified'.
You've written, "Their only defense for uniting with this kind of evil is that ridiculous notion that modern-day Russia and Putin are somehow the equivalent of the old Soviet Union, which they aren't."
The Left loves to push a "ridiculous notion" which can flip on its own axis in an instant. Meet with Putin; don't meet with Putin.
Putin as good enough to meet with flips to Putin as bad enough to not meet with, and the next flip is on its way....