As President Joe Biden and Western leaders seek to defuse a potentially catastrophic war in eastern Europe, a handful of primarily right-wing American political figures are slamming the Western response and even praising Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move to send troops into Ukraine—former President Donald Trump being the most prominent among them.

Trump, in an interview Tuesday, called Putin’s decision to recognize two Russian-backed breakaway states in eastern Ukraine and order Russian troops in as so-called peacekeepers a “genius” move, going on to call Putin “a guy who’s very savvy.”