I have been astonished since the Russian invasion of Ukraine by support for Putin by many on the Right in the US. They support him for a few main reasons, seemingly:

1) Ukraine was well known as being corrupt (witness Hunter Biden).

2) Putin has been standing up against a lot of the things the Right stands up against… in particular, leftist lunacy.

3) Putin is “pro-Christian.”

Yeah, about #3…

Putin ally threatens to turn Chechens loose on Russian dissidents

Putin is apparently contemplating unleashing foreign Muslims onto Russian Christians. Is… is this “defending Christianity?”