Trump and the Republicans admire Putin because of his nationalism and the weird association with him and strength. People like Nigel Farage are the same, they long for a Putin type authoritarian governmental system which stamps over anything that was put in place to stop the implementation of rather questionable policies.
What this war represents for these kind of people is a rejection of the kind of thing that they stand for which is aggressive nationalism. They can't have this because we are a democracy and have laws to stop it so they admire people that overrule it and that's why they can't help but find themselves sympathising with Putin.
He sounds like a right twat with all this poke the Bear shit. It's so fucking irritating listening to these fucking weirdos go on like we should all fall at the feet of this giant, whopping **** bucket that is Russia
Yeah fuck off