Says the person clearly confusing either tankies or liberals (or both? lol) for leftists.

People on the actual left A. never fell for Putin who has clearly been a dictator in the making since he got the job, and B. ideologically oppose all and any states, and their leaders, so suggesting that, of all groups, leftists are the ones who somehow bought in to Putin is the most clueless and wilfully ignorant take.

Being a mod doesn't somehow magically make you correct nor well informed.