— The Kids in America are anti-war —

You really think Putin gives a crap what America's gender-confused kids think?

It’s safe to say Putin doesn’t care about the Kids in America, the Adults in America, or the Senior-Citizens like yourself in America, regardless of “gender-confused” status.

He doesn’t even care about the opinions of Russians or Russian-speakers — as he’s flogging the Ukrainians with one hand while holding the rest of the world hostage with his nuke-finger on the other — so why would he?

That said — it’s interesting to observe that Mr. Putin’s hardline stance against LGBTQ “decadence” helped ensure a lot of gullible Western far-righties carried water for Putin for years.

Just a propaganda trick, I doubt Putin actually cares about LGBTQ one way or another, except as another fault line through which to divide and conquer the world.

He jails them.
Haven't you been paying any attention?

Sure, Putin harasses and jails LGBTQ people on the pretext of being LGBTQ. But that’s not really what it’s about.

—You can be LGBTQ in Russia, but you have to carry water for Putin.
—You can be corrupt in Russia, but you have to carry water for Putin.
—You can be a journalist in Russia, but you have to carry water for Putin.
—You can be a non-Russian speaker in Russia, but you have to carry water for Putin.
—You can worship God according to any religion you want in Russia, so long as your religion isn’t politically organized against Putin.
—You can be any ethnicity in Russia (it’s fairly diverse in that regard), so long as your people “don’t cause problems.”
—You can join any political party you want in Russia (there are quite a few to choose from), but the party must be one that is aligned with Putin’s United Russia. Those who are genuine anti-Kremlin dissidents, like Navalny, are fair game to be locked up upon any pretext.

Are you seeing how this works?

Human rights aren’t inherent to being human (or granted by God, if you’re religiously inclined) as it is conceptualized in the West — in Russia, they’re granted by the ruler. So, there’s quite a bit of “freedom” in Russia — in a way — to live whatever lifestyle you want, only one big rule that you must follow.

Kind of like here...you have to carry water for the Democrats

Cry more when somebody tells you to shut up when you spew hate speech.

What are you babbling on about?

Please tell me how you, personally, have been “persecuted” by any Democrat or by American society at large.

I will then link you an article of the kind of persecution that routinely happens to anti-Putinist Russians, and we can compare notes.