He may be, but my thesis is he isn’t. Russia is effectively at war with the US and NATO countries. Speaking out against your president during war time how he is handling the war, in such a way that could undermine national security and the war effort, could be interpreted sincerely as treason. Past capital punishment for treason, especially during war time, seems reasonable. If Putin is giving the order to take out these dissidents, it’s because he regards them as traitors and dangerous to the country. And as president, he has the legal authority to take out people even in a clandestine way. As does ours. Also, their political structure isn’t democratic in the way the West is, and the Church does not condemn autocracy. It is akin to kingship. There is one man standing up to the globalist West, effectively standing for the old order of Christendom, for better or worse that is Vladimir Putin.