I don’t share his vision of mutual development and cooperation with the west.

He is still stuck in a cold war kind of mindset where he’s expecting that one day a US admin will come along and uphold international law, or reform atlanticist NATO into something other than a belligerent axis of empire. It’s never going to happen. The US (and of course i don’t refer to the american people here) only respects strength, and only understands the language of force.

Minsk 1 and 2 prove it for anyone who doesn’t understand or care to learn post ww2 history.

His equivocation and reluctance to enter ukraine after the illegitimate banderite regime started slaughtering ethnic russians in the donbass cost innocent lives. His participation in the alaska summit was ill-advised also.

I appreciate at least that he has full-blown nationalists surrounding him in the duma who push for a more muscular foreign policy, so ‘his’ policies really are a mediation between the constraints of reality vs the impulses of the nationist duma. It’s a tight-rope walk that i’m sure almost nobody else could walk so i do have respect for him. I wish he was half the ‘communist authoritarian’ our braindead media accuse him of being, but alas.