What those on this thread have been extolling is Putin's actions that have been strengthening the forces of Faith & moral tradition, and removing some of the Marxist era assaults on Faith & moral values. No one has suggested that he is trying to Americanize Russia; nor that we should Russianize America.
But certainly American Conservatives can applaud his reintroduction of traditional religious values in the Russian schools; his support for traditional family values as against some of the aberrant nonsense being promoted in America--such as the oxymoron "same sex marriage"; and certainly he has not embraced the attack on the very concept of the nation, which appeals to pseudo-intellectual poseurs in American & European academia.
William Flax
Granted, it the comments are rhetorical, they’re just stupid.