Russia is not the Soviet Union. Putin is not Stalin. The Chicago Boys were not sent to Russia after the collapse of the Wall to help it become an independent capitalist democracy.
I agree in large measure.
I don’t waste my time on R-UK threads.
Putin et al are not moral agents, leading the way to God against a woke West.
He’s not evil incarnate.
But he IS an unrepentant sinner - ie he’s a divorced leader with plenary power who won’t ban abortion. Facts are facts.
I’d like to say he’s fooled lots of people. But in reality, many people simply gave up on right vs wrong and America after 2020. Putin is the recipient of their confused fanboying.