I am very much in support of Trump and what he represents, but I cannot find so easy support for Russia or Putin except in the sense that Putin is resisting the EU globalists and thus acting as an important check against their power. But modern Russia is essentially a mafia state, a true oligarchy with very limited free expression powers of its people and the easy ability of the government to apply police state tactics to silence or kill those who speak out against it. The killing of journalists (some of whom I am sure were secretly CIA operatives), for example.
And yes the USSR beat back Hitler, but only after it at first sided with him and cooperated/coordinated with him.
Of course we all know that western nations, America and European ones, probably Canada too even, engage in these secret police state tactics, oligarchical preferential structures underneath ostensible leadership, and that many system are run by mafia-like groups. So it’s not perhaps too damning by comparison to say that Russia also does such things, and indeed in terms of realpolitik and will to power logistics I do not doubt that such things are to a degree quite necessary or at least quite inevitable. But neither am I in favor of justifying and praising such things either. In fact part of my opposition to globalist neolibs/neocons in the West is that they engage in such practices, to the maximum extreme possible that they can get away with doing so. I may realize that some crime and mafia systems are inevitable and preferable to perhaps worse alternatives, but that doesn’t mean I want to live in an openly criminal mafia state either. And I’m not even sure that Russia is such an openly criminal mafia state, I have never been there. But it seems like a possibility. I’ll be hopeful some people here can share experiences and reasons for or against that assertion.
Now let us suppose that a large part of Putin’s more, let’s say undesirable characteristics, come from how Russia has been alienated by the rest of Europe. Of course it is much deeper, since the EuroGlobalists have tried to overthrow Russian government many times (Marxism notwithstanding, even). Suppose that a more Trumpian paradigm takes hold in Europe and European states become less antagonistic of Russia, so that Russia can begin to open itself up to the possibility of less police state power and to shift degrees of power more to its people. I would see that as a great development. But in order for that to occur, we must crush the globalists first.
“Be careful that when you fight monsters you do not also become a monster”, as Nietzsche said. Well that works the other way around, too: Be careful that when you fight monsters you do not not also become a monster lest you be… eaten by monsters. Yeah well, the power of these metaphors is pretty limited, but the needed conceptual space-expansion is present in it. Let’s keep going.