I think Putin is just cynically trying to take advantage of the divide in Western Countries, just as the Bolsheviks did during the Cold War.
The difference is that the Bolshies supported the Left, and Putin supports the Right. But the goal is the same.
Concur @24
I don’t consider Putin to be a “Christian” but I also can recognize that his opposition to the New World Order is helpful to my own interests.
However, he is NOT a nice person. Possibly one of the greediest people in the history of humanity and his ultimate downfall might be that he did not “spread the wealth” enough in his own nation. It makes him very vulnerable for a “populist” who will promise the Russian people that he will take back the wealth that Putin and his corruptocrat oligarchs have looted.
I have never understood why people like Putin and the oligarchs on both sides of the conflict are so greedy. You can live like a King with more wealth than you can ever spend and your subjects would adore you if you only siphoned off a sliver of the money and spread the rest......
Castro had this figured out in Cuba but it seems like greed with absolute power leaves most “leaders” wanting more and more.
This can be fatal if you understand Russian history......