It's kind of what the anti-Putin people in the west have been trying to tell the political right for a while: Putin is using rightist rhetoric as a weapon to undermine the establishment alone.

He is not a rightist. He never was, and he never will be. He is a Russian Nationalist in the Left Wing sense of Nationalism, as in a Nationalism stemming from Communism, as many "Old Left" communists were. This is because the Old Left understood Nationalism as Progressive Anti-Colonial Movements, which they typically are.

They were trying to explain that he's basically an SJW. That when he says he wants to de-Nazify Ukraine, he's actually not using Leftist rhetoric, he really believes that.

And he's right. The Fabians put him in power after Yeltsin because Yeltsin was so fucking broken and drunk that he couldn't continue, and the quiet former intelligence officer seemed like he would be controllable. He wasn't. Putin didn't like what the Fabians were doing to Russia, and Fabians always look like Capitalists to Communists. He looked at how the Fabian Socialists had been ravaging Russia, and saw it as Russia's version of Late Stage Capitalism that needed to be corrected.

This is also why Russia published a number of articles back in 2008 claiming the GFC was "the death-knell of capitalism". Russia is not a Rightist state. It's still Leftist, but not of the Western canon of Leftism.

As the Fabians did with Mussolini and Hitler, they condemned him as a Rightist after the supported and praised him for his Leftist policies and agendas, because he had challenged their specific authority. This is what Leftists always do. Hell, it's why Stalin called Social Democrats in Spain: "Trotskyite Fascists".