Gee, I wish we had a dictator like Putin.
Don’t forget that Mussolini & then Hitler were admired by the western democracies early on in their regimes for their perceived personal strength & the ability to `get things done’.
It’s not as though in 1933 the world erupted in revulsion with “OMG! Nazis in power!! Civilized nations must come together at ONCE and drive them from power immediately!!”
Putin is a strongman & Obama is a weakman, got it. That doesn’t mean Russia is a pleasant place to live, far from it.