One of the problems is that Putin's charges against the west could have been lifted right off the pages of free republic back before we all went in the tank for the war mongering globalists.
A claimant to global hegemony cannot imagine being ruled by the US$ driven global banking empire that is sucking the lifeblood out of the west. BRICS means Brasil Russia India and China. And it is the west that divorced Putin, when they cancelled all of their paper on Russian assets. Most of us are pretty angry at running our printing presses full tilt to pay for buy back better.
Oh and then there is his charge of Western perversion. Anyone want to state the case for the defense. Please explain how someone who cannot define woman is to be a principal defender of western freedoms and values.
Yeah, that’s all legit, but is it really a driving force behind Putin? It certainly lines up with Duginism. I don’t think we know (certainly not from the media and government propaganda) what is really going on. “He’s a madman” and “He’s Hitler all over again” don’t tell us much. They just substituted Putin for Trump.
A lot of conservatism is still acting like it’s Christian America against Godless Communism. The British head of MI-6 said the quiet part out loud. If Hollywood and Facebook boycott Russia, is that a win or a loss for them? How does Putin see it? Is it temporary?