[The Duke]

Well, probably my personal definitions of 'conservative' and 'liberal' are unique to me. For me a conservative is someone who is inclined to preserve the system as it is, while a liberal is someone is inclined to change the system.

By that definition Putin would be a conservative I would think.

[elhombrelibre]

Then, you would think Castro is a conservative. I see a conservative in the tradition of the great minds on the right, like Edmund Burke, for example.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Conservatives are patriotic. Americans who support Putin are by definition not conservative because they support America's anti-American enemy, and are therefore, not patriotic.