“Your defense of Putin is that someday it may be shown that other people have made similar mistakes.”
Yep...we are giving arms to people that at least as bad. Fortunately for us airliners are not typically flying in missile range of those weapons.
We have NOTHING to be proud of.
There are hundreds of millions of Americans who disagree with you.
But, you may be on to something in terms of your understanding your warm feelings for an incompetent jerk like Putin. Other than the fact that Putin is opposing the USA, I don't hear you providing any reasons for those warm feelings. There always seem to be a few folks who at the first sign of trouble rush to embrace and defend our opponents.