Lots to unpack there, but
Putin’s driving cause is Russian sovereignty ( not world or regional domination but a place at the table of great nations)
Russia long has suffered corrupt or compromised leaders ( Yeltsin, Gorbachev) that allowed the West to weaken and try to isolate Russia, casting it as an expansionist power, seducing Gorbachev and even Putin with false treaties and promises only meant to buy the US maneuvering time and space to build strategic superiority. look at the expansion of NATO. Look at the expansion of the US “ defense” budget,
What is the West really afraid of?
A longtime cabal in Washington and London is driven to weaken or destroy Russian sovereignty by turning it into a threat to our world and regional domination. Mass psychological conditioning of our populations to view Russia ( personified by Putin) as “ evil”. Backward, primitive, barbaric …unworthy of existing as a powerful sovereign, has reached a fever pitch and never been more obvious. Russia is to be defeated, broken into multiple vassal states amenable to control of its vast natural resources by globalists who fund the current US dominated unipolar “ rules based order”.
We make the rules, we call it democracy, we use military force to spread and maintain it. We are the Tonya Harding of global order.
NATO long ago stopped being a defensive alliance
Russia won’t lose its national culture and sovereign interests when Putin is gone
Good summary
I would ask why do you view Gorby as corrupt?
Boris was and allowed all these party commissars to privatize their industries and resource sectors to become oligarchs instantly financed by Goldman etc
Putin purged that which didn’t endear him to influential in the west
And he’s as unwoke as Trump
I think globalists would like Russia as a resource laden backwater to be exploited and no military threat whatsoever
We really screwed it up after 1991
Serbia being the first big hit
Why we did that I’ll never figure honestly