Indeed, I agree!
But there are people in the West (mostly on the fringe of the Republican Party) whose so badly hate the Left for mocking Christianity, that they're desperate to find a country that fulfills their ideal of the way America used to be, the old-school "God-And-Country" image. And a few on the fringe of that fringe, like Marjorie Taylor-Greene, are stupid enough to think "we've found that country! It's Russia!"
Putin knows this, and he has carefully crafted his public persona to feed this narrative. I too was fooled once upon a time.😅