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Peter Thiel (like many others in the Silicon Valley elite) has disdain for people. He believes people are too stupid to rule themselves and must be put under the wise rule of their betters. He thinks he is one of these betters.
That is why he feels sympathy for all the tyrannical places, where such neo-feudalist structures are in place and who promote such structures. The most prominent (but not the only one) building this is Putin. Putin is the Czar and has his Counts and Barons within Russia and dependent territories.
Thiel thinks he could be a Count to start with and due to his superior intelligence would surely Machiavelli himself to eventually be near supreme power.