Another point from this ( Putin Warns Wokeness Is Destroying The West: It Happened In Russia, It’s Evil, It Destroys Values | The Daily Wire ), which a lot of less-sophisticated TEA Party-types will either reject or embrace: Putin has said that the USSR was Russia at its height. Yet here he condemns the ideology of that political entity. It shows him to be a nationalist, not a communist. Russia was at the height of its status then, even if its ruling ideology was a problem.
It would be like if the USA suffered a split or loss of world standing in the process of installing a more, uh, "adequate" ruling ideology. One might rightly say that the country had been at its height under the current Constitution, even as its ideology then was problematic.
See my other comment here: ARTICLE and analysis of Russia as a defender of the West: "Putin Warns Wokeness Is Destroying The West: It Happened In Russia, It’s Evil, It Destroys Values."
