Easy to understand.
Putin, thug that he is, is a social conservative on moral issues...anti-gay. pro-church, but still a thug and authortarian.. The social conservatives here like that, and the left hates it.
“Putin, thug that he is, is a social conservative on moral issues...anti-gay. pro-church, but still a thug and authortarian.. The social conservatives here like that, and the left hates it.”
People have no idea how much of a factor that is, when they see their own country wasting away on the same issues - and know what that bodes for the future of the West. I would just add that Putin doesn’t want to be a bitch to the WEF either, so they are really, really, pissed at him.