Conservative western bloggers: Ukraine strongman's pay-for-play useful idiots

[quote=“Purplecat, post:6, topic:23606”]supporting Viktor Yanukovych puts you temporarily on the same side as Putin.
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The more fervid rightwing pundits are deeply in manly love with Putin; he’s a muscular authoritarian who poses shirtless! VD Hanson, for instance, has written exactly the paeans to Putin that you’d expect from his tendency to salivate over Sparta. So… no cognitive dissonance.

EDIT – I see I’m echoing allium’s earlier comment.

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