You don’t have to stand with Putin to despise neocons. What I think is funny is the neocons’ breathless reporting about places like Crimea, Abkhazia, Ossetia, as if they’ve always been thinking about them and concerned about what goes on there. Will Putin move on Moldova, Schizvanli, or Spingali? Who cares? He took over a huge part of Georgia. Great, we have a Marxist in our White House. Will kicking Putin out of Crimea raise my salary or put food on my table? It might lower gas prices, probably not, but a better way to lower prices is to get the Marxists out of DC.
I might give anti-Putin rhetoric if two things were true:
1. I thought American long-term interests lie with supporting the EU and its enviro-wackos over the Russians who rightly reject homosexuality.
2. Putin was morally and legally wrong to do what he did.
Neither is the case.