re: Why are conservatives such staunch supporters of Putin?

It's a little disheartening that Congress couldn't come up with $5 billion to secure our own border, yet has $100 billion to secure another country's.

That country is the epicenter of U.S. corruption. You had friends and relatives of politicians on both sides of the aisle sitting on the boards of Ukrainian energy companies, and warhawks like Miss Lindsey and McCain were going over there back in 2016 to ramp up for the proxy war.

The conflict basically started in 2014 when a neocon lunatic named Victoria Nuland backed a coup (you should watch Ukraine on Fire and Revealing Ukraine by Oliver Stone). 14,000 people have died in the Donbass region since then because Ukraine couldn't adhere to something called the Minsk II peace agreements.

The cherry on top of all this is we hear constantly from the media that the biggest threat to the planet is right-wing fascism. Well, Ukraine has such a neo-nazi problem that Dems have justifiably condemned them multiple times in the last few years. But, that's out the window now that the military-industrial complex is feasting and we can weaken Russia.

I don't think people are necessarily supporting Putin so much as they are upset that tax dollars are directly supporting a proxy war in a country that is of no interest to the U.S.