Positive for whom? Being a nationalist is not necessarily a positive. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chavez, etc. were also nationalists. It depends on how this nationalism manifests itself that determines whether it is positive or not.
In Putin's case, I don't see it as a positive. Ask the people of Georgia and Ukraine about his nationalism. Check with the Baltic nations to see how they view Putin and his desire to protect "ethnic Russians."
I should have been more clear. The Russian people have a nationalist leader named Vladimir Putin. Love or hate him this is what he is even as he piles up billions via skimming. He gets high approval ratings from his Russian people
I wish we had a nationalist leader. Instead we have a traitor-saboteur in the White House. Someone who doesn’t know what being an American is about. Someone who has thrown open our Mexican border. Obama’s place is in the third world, not the White House.
So who does more for his people-nation? Vladimir Putin does by a long shot.