Putin is not a Communist. There is a Communist Party in Russia, and it is an opposition party today. Putin is not a member. While the Communist Party of Russia is the largest opposition party presently there, it runs a distant second to United Russia, the party Putin has been in since the 1990s IIRC. My recollection from that time is that he was a founder, or has been involved in that party, since that time. I'm not particularly well informed regarding Putin's political affiliations, nor the founding and history of United Russia, but I believe they are nationalist, rather than communist.

I completely agree regarding globalism, and note that nationalist institutions, such as United Russia, are constitutionally opposed to globalism. Unfortunately, there seems to be no nationalist party here in the states, and both the Republican and Democratic parties seem to be globalist in nature. There was an attempt prior to the election of Trump to cast him as a nationalist candidate, but he has certainly dispelled that notion since his administration began. While the globalist cabal's goals seem to be aligned with the interests of the US empire, the national interests of Americans generally and the USG itself are distinct, and more or less opposed to those of globalists, IMHO.

I am certainly opposed to their interests, as I think are you. Folks on the left seem to be more willing to accept the international governance mechanisms and extranational interests of such parties as seem involved in the globalist doctrines, such as disarmament of private people, centralization of power in the least local governance mechanisms, and equalization of wealth (serfdom) of all civilians. Unfortunately, it seems that those interests are more and more being prosecuted militarily with the hearty support of those people whose bemusement at geopolitics enables them to believe war is peace - as long as it's happening to brown people somewhere else.

Nothing could be more vile.