If you pay the man any kind of compliment, you automatically support him. The man isn’t dumb, but a tad nutty by this point. He relied on China to back him, and they wound up quietly excusing themselves from the table instead.
I think he has surrounded himself with yes men and is getting bad advice
You don’t even have to pay a compliment.
I pointed out that in both 2014 and now that oil was around $100/bbl and that due to the oil price Russia couldn’t afford to invade during the Trump presidency.
That made me a Putin fan…
One can certainly point out that Putin hasn’t pooped his pants in front of the Pope and not be a “Putin supporter.”