Plz stop with your strawmanning; I merely described a "non-insignificant chunk" of libertarians, and how they can't even follow core tenets of their own ideology's core tenets, such as Freedom of Speech and Individualism, which are the things that Putin dislikes. Oh, I didn't mention it, but the taxes are regularly rising in Russia, because the economy has gone down the shitter: Putin would be quite happy making IRS more rabid against those who don't pay taxes, if he was POTUS.
Also, I definitely know more about Libertarianism than that "non-insignificant chunk" of the people I've described; Hell, I wholeheartedly agree that authoritarianism kinda sucks, since I live in such a country.
Putin might be the only (not first-world, though, Russia is a second-world developing country) leader that has an agenda of his own, but he's only interested in destroying The Evil West, not actually advancing the country or helping Russian people by making life in Russia easier. One of the Russia's biggest problem, for example, is that the state-funded healthcare is free but atrocious, and the doctors working in such institutions receive absolutely miserable wage. Same with education sector, and while I'm not afraid of it eventually getting privatized due to the private institutions paying more money, I'm afraid of the shortage of teachers due to the miserable wage they receive.
Last but not least, the western countries' organized crime has an influence on the govs, whereas Russia has organized crime as its gov.