I think Putin is fixing to set himself up as Tsar and is just laying the groundwork, working on recreating the former Russian Empire.
See, I don’t think so. I think that Putin knows that the old school communism won’t work. He isn’t an idiot. It’s been tried and failed, in some countries it still is going on, but not well. He may want to take back old USSR territories, but I think more of an empire, or a republic is what he is looking for. Not communism.