It’s because liberals have cult of personality as the only way they can understand politics. So the only way they can mock or demean the Russian government is by projecting some kind of made up personality on Putin, despite being unwilling to ever read or listen to a thing he says. You could probably voice over Putin in faux Russian and they probably wouldn’t be able to tell that that wasn’t his actual voice. It’s related to how they can only understand their political opponents as dumb/senile/angry/weak as that’s the only thing they usually consider in electoral politics, actual ideology be damned.
It’s because liberals have cult of personality as the only way they can understand politics. So the only way they can mock or demean the Russian government is by projecting some kind of made up personality on Putin, despite being unwilling to ever read or listen to a thing he says. You could probably voice over Putin in faux Russian and they probably wouldn’t be able to tell that that wasn’t his actual voice. It’s related to how they can only understand their political opponents as dumb/senile/angry/weak as that’s the only thing they usually consider in electoral politics, actual ideology be damned.