Definitely, if the west had leaders of his caliber then there would not be the issues we have today socially and politically. Listen to his speeches and look at his actions he doesn't bullshit the russian people and he doesn't sugarcoat a thing he says or does. Meanwhile he gets blasted in western media regularly, the same way zionist run western media blasted hitler before ww2 whenever he did something that strengthened his nation's independence or sovereignty.
What people do not realize is that the world needs that balance of power that russia provided after ww2, and which was eroded after the fall of the USSR. Now that the Russians are ascendant again, the west is afraid because after the USSR fell, there was no one really to challenge them on the world stage and they were able to do as they pleased; not so anymore as Russian involvement in Syria proves. Putin and the Russian Republic is essential to the continuance of world peace, I support what they are doing in Syria 100% for this reason.
My only worry is that Syria is the new spanish civil war, and that Russia is being drawn into a trap. If you look at a map you can see that Russia is becoming surrounded with NATO and NATO puppet govt's. China needs to step up and get the west to back down by supporting Russia. From what I can tell, Russia and China are friendly which is encouraging.
Russian doctrine has been completely overhauled in the past 10 years.
There has been some public talk about risk of Syria being a trap which would tie Russia in never ending battle, like in Afghanistan.
But so far Russia has shown no intention to go Afghan-scale in any of the conflicts in the past 10 years it has directly participated. Russia operates surgically.
Russia goes in with very limited force which can be withdrawn or doubled in a week.
Russia has amazing freedom of movement around Syria with Iranian and Iraq airspace (and Iranian airports) in their use.
Russia is able to operate in Syria from Caspian Sea and from Mediterranean alone with cruise missiles as was shown earlier. From two directions.
Recent deployment of S-300 and S-400 air defense assets allow Russia to monitor (not strike though) the airspace all over the region.
In addition to that they have permanently deployed guided missile cruiser in Mediterranean with long range air defense assets for mobility.
Additionally Russia one time stroke Syria with strategic bombers which took off from Northern Russia and flew all around the Europe to come launch missiles above Mediterranean:
I have a feeling Russia knows what it is doing this time.
Recent successes of covertly taking over Crimea without USA even noticing until troops were deployed all over the place and putting up war machine in Syria with very short notice time have cemented my view they are back.
Hell, USA even wondered how Russia managed to get the initial fighter jets in Syria without them noticing.
Secret was that Russian fighter jets flew in very close formation together with huge freight planes and this formation showed on radars just as a one big point... and Russia had delivered material to Syria for years with freight planes hence it didn't caught any attention
The importance is to keep up the good stuff and not get cocky because that's when you make mistakes.
