I always find it annoying when someone from the West prefaces something with “I’m not a fan of Putin, but…”

I translate this as “everything I know about Putin and Russia comes from Western propaganda, which I completely believe because I’m as dumb as a rock”. When you ask those people what do they know about Putin, what they will tell you is invariably list of fake news manufactured in Britain and America. Oh, Putin kills journalists and people who say something against him and so on. My answer to this is that it’s obviously not true because Putin is such a pedantic legalist, if he wanted to kill journalists who slander him, he’d draft a law allowing him to imprison or summarily kill journalists, and send it to Duma for a vote. If it’s against the law, you can be reasonably sure he’s against it and doesn’t do it. If you want to know what he wants to do, read the laws that are proposed. If he wanted to nuke America, he’d probably ask the parliament to give him permission to summarily nuke enemies of Russia that are threatening its existence at the moment.

What do I personally think of Putin? I think he’s in the same league as Peter the Great, Bismarck, Julius Caesar, Octavian Augustus and similar all-time great political minds; definitely the greatest living politician, and definitely the greatest we’ve seen since the death of Bismarck. He’s also the greatest living Christian politician, which is remarkable in these times, when the politicians in the West are all children of Satan. Am I a fan of Putin; let’s put it this way: I’m a fan of God and Truth, and Putin is also a fan of God and Truth. This makes us on the same team. To not be a fan of Putin in this geopolitical scenery means you’re either stupid, evil or both.