Don’t be so fast in heaping praises on Putin. He’s been handed a tool of manipulation by the progressives. Anytime he mentions this it just fuels the speculation.
I don’t heap praise on him.
I see him for exactly what he is.
He’s very problematic. If we can use him, fine.
I’d rather have him involved with us doing something good, than making statements in the international arena defying us to do things against Syria and the like.
If we can get him to go after ISIS with us and agree or acquiesce to arm the Kurds, what’s not to like?