Putin's authoritarian Kremlin dictatorship also supports the likes of radical communistic, anti-American thugs such as Hugo Chavez, Castro, Danial Ortega & the rest of Latin America's leftist rulers, right on America's southern flank.
You conveniently forget that Saudi Arabia - the major funder of jihad around the world - is being supported by this nation militarily and financially! OPEC owns us. Do you understand the danger that puts us all in? Do you get it at all? Are you conscious at all?
You should be thanking your lucky stars that Russia has some leverege with the Shia mullahs.