These are not real conservatives. They’re not the type who believe in limited government, the rule of law, a respect for tradition, a love of country, a reference for the past, a desire for civil and popular sovereignty. These are conservatives who believe in a former KGB Colonel restoring his vision of Russian Imperialism and beating down an independent nation that wants nothing to do with him. Any way you dress it up these people are merely apologist for a tyrant.
How were US-Russian relations under the Czars? Quite cordial actually, even though back then their reach went all the way into Poland.