“ The more the US Left and DC deep-state criticizes Putin, the more they look exactly like the caricature of him they created.”
Putin is a deadly tyrant.
But I’d take him a thousand times before I’d take the U.S. government once. He’s bad, but the consummate evil on Earth is fascist America.
Putin has the humanity of murdering his critics relatively swiftly. The Bolshecrats prefer to torture their enemies to death (see J6 hostages, President Trump, etc).