Remember, Putin is a former KGB agent and he loathes the Western World.
He is dead serious about "de-nazifying" Ukraine. There are many, MANY good National Socialist men serving in Ukraines army and not just their battalions.
Putin hates nationalism and has stamped out all traces of it in Russia. He is globohomo.
Pro-Russians in The West like to say that Putin is challenging the Liberal-Democratic post-war world order, and is therefore worth supporting.
However, what they seem to either forget or not understand is that Russia was fundamental in creating and enforcing this post-war order. The United Nations was founded during World War Two with the express goal of defeating Fascism and creating a leftist world order, whether it be liberalism in The West, or communism in the Soviet Union.
At its core, the goal of the United Nations was to defeat the concept of ethnic and racial identity as a foundation for national identity and nation-states.
Pro-Russians in the Anglosphere might attempt to refute this by noting the segregated nature of America and the American military in the 1930's and 40's, however that was a legacy that President Roosevelt was forced to deal with, not endorse. Roosevelt constantly did as much as he could to de-racialize America, and even had a so called "Black Cabinet" advising him and his government on supporting the black community, and by 1935 there were a previously unheard of 45 blacks working in federal executive departments and "New Deal" agencies.
The United Nations was not founded on April 25th, 1945, as some chronologies state. The United Nations was truly founded on January 1st, 1942, at the Arcadia Conference wherein China, The USSR, The United Kingdom, and The United States signed the Declaration by United Nations.
The final sentence of the Declaration by United Nations is as follows:
The foregoing declaration may be adhered to by other nations which are, or which may be, rendering material assistance and contributions in the struggle for victory over Hitlerism.
The Soviet Union, and then Russia, were founding members of this international order, and because of the prominence of their role in establishing it were granted a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. To be clear, Russia has a permanent seat on the security council of the internationalist organization which was founded to defeat Ethno-Nationalism.
This is the country Anglosphere "Nationalists" claim is challenging the post-war order.
And Vladimir Putin is very proud and cognizant of that fact, as he stated in a September 2015 interview with CBS' Charlie Rose when asked about his upcoming speech at the United Nations:
I do not think it reasonable to go into much detail about everything I am going to speak about, but, broadly, I will certainly mention some facts from the history of the United Nations. Now I can already tell you that the decision to establish the United Nations was taken in our country at the Yalta Conference. It was in the Soviet Union that this decision was made. The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.
Here are some quotes from his speech commemorating the 70th Session of the United Nations on September 28th, 2015:
"In 1945, the countries that defeated Nazism joined their efforts to lay solid foundations for the postwar world order."
"But I remind you that the key decisions on the principles guiding the cooperation among states, as well as on the establishment of the United Nations, were made in our country, in Yalta, at the meeting of the anti-Hitler coalition leaders."
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"The United Nations is unique in its legitimacy, representation and universality."
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"Russia stands ready to work together with its partners on the basis of full consensus, but we consider the attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the United Nations as extremely dangerous. They could lead to a collapse of the entire architecture of international organizations..."
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"Similar to the anti-Hitler coalition, it could unite a broad range of forces that are resolutely resisting those who, just like the Nazis, sow evil and hatred of humankind."
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"Everything that contravenes the U.N. Charter must be rejected."