He could be American. My guess is that he's either a naturalized immigrant or 1st generation. And there are people that simply are pro-Russian, just as there are people that are pro-Trump, pro-Biden, pro-Israel, etc.

I only am listening to him because he's presenting the other perspective (i.e. pro-Russian). And am engaging him with facts that I can verify. We actually supported the fledgling Russian democracy. Since Putin seized power, it's been growing more antagonistic. I saw an interesting documentary on Putin (Frontline, as I recall). Putin was a disillusioned KGB agent at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, and has since been working to recreate the Soviet Union; at least in part because he saw the Soviet society as superior to the infant democracy right after the fall. Plus he saw the West as the enemy (he's as much a Cold Warrior as I am...I grew up convinced the Soviets were going to nuke us at any moment), and wanted Russia to be competitive with the West (as the Soviet Union was, at least militarily, if not really economically).