I tend to agree. Keep a close on Putin, back him against the Islamists, and give no quarter to his trolls on FR.
“back him against the Islamists”
Sounds like you’re softening up toward Vlad. Nice to see somebody who’s mature enough to adjust his positions to the evidence
But I hesitate to call them trolls, and here's why. Most average Americans were rooting for Stalin to kick Nazi butt in WW II. Many of those folks (non-reds) advanced a picture of Stalin as kindly old pipe-smoking Uncle Joe.
Were those folks back in WWII Stalinist trolls? No, I see them more as people who simply did not want to see the full picture. Or people who felt Stalin's good outweighed his bad(!). But not trolls.
Just my two cents.