After reading one of the intro paras:

To be clear: Vladimir Putin is a true reactionary, with his nostalgia for the Tsars, his Orthodox Christian fervour and ironclad alliance with one of the world’s most objectionable religious hierarchies, his vision of a feudal state-capitalism, the rampant corruption he has enabled and encouraged, his butchery in Chechnya, his repression of dissent. And of course, his suicidal invasion of Ukraine, an anachronistic return to trench warfare in Europe that risks an atomic holocaust over territory – the Donbass – that a decade ago hardly anyone knew existed. To measure the extent of Putin’s folly beyond the horrors he has unleashed, one need only recall that in 2013, 80 per cent of Ukrainians had a positive opinion of Russia.

It was difficult to continue reading on. He mostly gets it right after that, in terms of geopolitics, with occasional side-swipe at Putin/Putin's 'regime', on a lesser scale than than that intro para. The question is, what is it that makes him align himself with neocons and their criticism of RF etc. Beats me.