Some, indeed many, dissent Right sites are rooting for Putin, who they see as a defender of traditionalism, including Christianity. However, as Jim Goad has argued in his own unique style, this is just a myth, for the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. Putin may attack aspects of the decadent West, but he has his own hostilities as Goad rightly notes, basically towards Anglo-Saxons, so unlike the West, he thinks racially.