Putin has been where Obama is taking the US:
Russia was a Communist country where God was forbidden,
Russia is trying to introduce capitalism and shake the socialist form of government. Russia has fought the Muslims for over 700 years in their back yard. Read The Ghost of the Balkans. They are fighting them today in Chechnia. The Russians know their enemies. The Russians are rediscovering the importance of God in their country, again they have lived with the past where the Communists banned all religions so the people had to turn to government . Most striking is Putin at least gives the appearance of a moral compass . The US administration sends out the same liars of Benghazi to try to convince the US populace to follow.
Putin is a devotee of Solzhenitsyn, I don’t think he started out that way, but I think after meeting him, it had a profound effect on him. And Solzhenitsyn tried to warn the West that they were on a destructive path, but we haven’t listened.