this article has been written for left-leaning people or liberals that believe wokeness is just the next step toward tolerance.

for left and Reddit, Putler is a madman dictator that wants to rebuild the Russian empire, and his entire chain of command is composed of yesmen and for that reason only he is doing what he is doing

so for the author, Putin is a madman, and he being against wokeness is a point to prove the madness

for us instead, the west is falling into a cannibalistic spiral of degeneracy where the leaders get progressively less skilled and more dependent to do the bidding of big media and corporations, and other globalists entities with no loyalty to the country, they substitute deceit to the threats of violence of dictators but mingled their business in their proxyes state as the same way dictators do. the word of these leaders is worth dogshit, and nobody is trusting them Putin on top of everyone

we who allow at least 1% of probability that wokeness is being weaponized by china and/or russia to weaken us. reading that Putin is genuinely against wokeness is for us an evidence that he is morally right in his endeavor

also, the part in the article where it says that Putin feels contempt for western leaders too worried about appearance instead of doing the right thing for their country (literally the definition of cuckery) is written to make Putin look bad, (because the author assumes the direction the western democracies are going is fine) but just look to Covid management and coverage and the choice of Biden for the supreme court and we know is true

there is no point into building stronger commercial ties with an authoritarian country hoping that this will move them toward democracy if your democracy package contain stuff they find loathsome, (and so do the people of those democracies as well) at best those authoritarian state will enjoy your money from the trade as long they last. but will never join you in spirit and maybe will attack you in you grow too weak.

we played right into his hands by turning completely degenerate

That is some serious “wet streets cause rain” logic. You’re talking like Putin was accidentally correct. Nope. He called it perfectly. Being correct is not synonymous with being a good person, but being wrong often is synonymous with being a bad person.