Well if you have lived there, you’ll have some sense of why it’s frustrating to witness all this pro-Putin nonsense on a message board called “Free Republic” - two things of which his society are most certainly NOT. And it’s getting old!
You claim everyone blames Putin simply for being some embodiment of anti-Leftism — but in actuality, you’re still acting as if Obama is still president! As if disillusionment with Obama gives you guys license to just bash Western Civilization over the head. So now even Trump is a globalist Soros neocon for sanctioning Russia?
From your comments it is easy to suspect that you are pushing some kind of agenda.