Because Obama is so obnoxious and leftist some conservatives tend to look upon Putin as the lesser of two evils. Especially since Putin has embraced Russian Orthodoxy publicly and has denounced the homosexual agenda, in contrast to our government and culture being increasingly hostile to Christianity and supportive of sexual perversion and degeneracy, it is understandable that Russia seems the “good guy”. The French Right had the same feeling when their nation was ruled by a leftist coalition in the 1930s. Better Hitler than Blum (Leon Blum, the French prime minister) was their cry. Perhaps the sudden collapse of French forces in World War II was due to rightist Frenchmen who refused to fight for a leftist regime. The French Right made a huge mistake. Let's hope American conservatives don't make a similar error.
If Russia moves against the Baltic states and Poland, both of which were under their thumb under the Tsars and Stalin, we would be obligated to fight. Would our patriotic soldiers put up much of a fight for Obama or a liberal successor? Better Putin than Obama?