The threat to America--the reeal threat today--is not President Putin's ambitions, but the internationalist betrayal of heritage that afflicts the European & European settler worlds. Putin does not seek to undermine the West's cultural heritage. His enemies in America do.
Indeed to understand the Trump Haters, please consider. The key is in Trump's rejection of the PC strictures, which dominate globalist pursuits on both sides of the Atlantic. Whatever you may dislike or fear in Putin, he is not the advocate of a PC world order--nor of the EU's deliberate undermining of its member States' ancestral heritages.
So in your view, correct me if I'm wrong, tyranny in defense of Western heritage is no vice? And, therefore, a former KGB man turned ultra nationalist and Russian chauvinist, is doing the world a favor by chopping off hunks of the nation of Georgia and Ukraine, stationing nuclear-capable missiles in violation of treaties in Kaliningrad, waging an undeclared war on Ukraine, attempting to undermine the vital center of democracy by funding the extreme right and the extreme left in Europe, pursuing the break up of NATO, buzzing at close distance US naval vessels, sending his nuclear capable aircraft in to the airspace of neutral Ireland, and sending his nuclear submarines in to Sweden's territorial water? I guess the PC threat is pretty severe to be a good excuse for these actions.
putin is leading a self-aggrandizing, unaccountable, for his own personal enrichment. He has journalists and political opponents shot and killed on a fairly routine basis. It's difficult for me as a defender of the West and its values to see how that is good for Russia, let alone the preservation of our values: constitutional government, the rule of law, trial by jury, civil rights, property rights, and Christian values. Still, I do realize that the love of putin is deep and profound and irrational.