the diference: Putin's dreamworld may be bad and authoritarian, but it always *appears* that they want a strong Russia (even if at the expense of others) on their dreamworld

It contrasts too much with the subordination to WEF/globalists/whatever-you-may-call-them interests we see in the west. 

Putin is not a family-values-champion, but even lip service contrasts with the bent knees to wokeness worship we are used to see in the west.

it is hard for ppl to separate issues, or to see in degrees instead of black and white.