Putin has many True Believers...on FReeRepublic, not so much in Ukraine and Russia’s neighbors.
The problem is that the some FReeRepublic people are swallowing Putin’s propaganda wrapped in libertarian paper on Russia Today. This is the main source of the nonsense including with the “predictions” of the clowns parading as forecasters, economists or other “experts”. One should throw the RT where its place is in the garbage.
Irresponsible and almost foolish statements by Ron Paul did not help either.
But libertarianism, with small exceptions, historically went along with Moscow Bolshevism. At first when anti-communist tried to destroy the Iron Curtain, for instance CATO expert were convincing that USA can have good relations with Soviet Union because… the trade, of course. The other example would be their attitude towards the expansion of NATO, which they tried to block as hard as they could with their idiotic rhetoric. Recent case, the missile defense which some of the libertarians critized stronger than Putin himself. And of course the defense of the tyrants such as Milosevic… The list of their terrible mistakes is very long… Putin propaganda uses them like map to change libertarians into wind mills spinning whenever he would blow.
I think some of libertarians seems to be worse idiots because they think they are wise while some Communists at least knew that they are fools…