Agreed. Just make sure you remember that one is a democracy and one is a mafia dictatorship. Democracy is by no means perfect. Absolutely not. It never will be, just like you and I and every other citizen. But as Winston Churchill put it, it is the best we have. The West may have much that needs fixing, we just need to make sure we don't brake more than we fix in the process. Anyway, the way towards a better society is definatelly not giving Putin more influence 

 I think democracy has left. It has been replaced with political theater, and next comes politcal repression. In the US, the legislature is derelict in its duties, the courts are growing polarized, and the administrative state gobbles all responsbilities as the elected class seek high time preference solutions in support of reelection over reason.