The Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked. Anyone who does not admit that fact is either insane or intentionally stupid.
Not only that, but the Russian military is bombing apartment buildings, hospitals, etc. They are targeting civilians. This has been ongoing, so it is obviously being done on orders directly from Putin himself. We already knew that Putin murdered Russian dissidents, but now Putin is a murderer on practically a genocidal scale. Those facts notwithstanding, a substantial percentage of the Trump brigade actually support Putin while they oppose and condemn the President of the United States of America! We must ask ourselves why, and I have the answer.
While Trump was president, he spoke and acted like a strongman dictator wannabe. He would have been an authoritarian dictator if he could have been, but obviously, our Constitution, laws, and system of government prevented him from doing that.
Putin, on the other hand, is an actual strongman dictator. When Trump was forced out of office by a free and fair election, many Trump supporters decided to transfer their allegiances and affections onto Putin. Putin is everything American right-wing extremists wish Trump had been--Putin is ruthless to his political enemies, Putin pays phony lip service to Christianity for political purposes (although by "Christianity" Putin means the Russian Orthodox Church, which most American evangelicals probably do not even consider to be real biblical Christianity), he is socially conservative, etc.
This dynamic is reinforced by the fact that in place of Trump, we now have a Democrat in the White House. MAGAs are seething with hatred for Biden--so much so that they are more than happy to sabotage his administration in any way they can in order to prevent him or another Democrat from retaining the White House in 2024. And they will sabotage Biden even if it means sabotaging America itself. So while these Republicans claim to be the ultimate true American patriots, they will in fact act as traitors to America as long as we have a Democrat for a president.