If Russia wants to spread propaganda against it that's fine with me.

not unlike tea pot people and Obama.

Just saying.

I'm right on the edge of fracking in PA. It's not hard to see the adverse effects of the process. Putin may be a bastard but I don't think he's stupid. You can't destroy the land you live on and expect good results.

I already get enough grief here because I watch RT. I still find it much more informative than network or cable news in the US.

.....I do not understand the black and white hate or love thinking of people who otherwise seem rationale.
You may not have gotten a lot of response to your post because maybe you got some people with this black and white mentality thinking like they usually do, with an open mind and evidence based opinion.

There are certain subjects discussed here where whatever you have to say is always wrong. It doesn't matter what your research or historical perspective is, you cannot convince someone who ideologically will not accept a viewpoint that challenges what they hold to be unquestioned truth.

As to RT, their news coverage is much more informative than US media. Much more detail and not so much opinion. The analyses shows, there are a handful that I find accurate and informative, others, such as Crosstalk, I won't waste my time with. As a geek I really appreciate Tech Update.

... is that there's little evidence that this is something Putin "stands for".

There's no reason to believe that Putin would oppose fracking in Russia if it was needed. It just isn't needed. They've dramatically increased natural gas production in recent years and plan an even more dramatic increase over the next decade or so...

... they just don't want their current customers producing their own.

But since you brought it up, let us not pretend that you've received "unhinged responses" for supporting just "one thing" Putin is doing.

Tosser.