Putin’s primary task is to keep Mother Russia from dying
Seems he is succeeding.
Putin's second task is to stop Russia from turning into a compromised "snowflake" hellhole run by nutty progressives...
It's worth noting this. putin pushed us out of Manas AFB in Kyrgyzstan; he ripped off a hunk of Ukraine despite their treaty to respect that nation's territorial integrity; he is still waging an undeclared war against Ukraine; he provides arms and intel to the Taliban; he sends their planes to buzz or ships; he sends their planes to buzz Ireland's airspace; he sends their submarines into Sweden's territorial waters; he creates with his puppet Assad a humanitarian disaster in Syria to prop up his pet dictator; he launched a propaganda campaign against the USA and supports every far left and far right group in Europe to undermine those nations; and he stations nuclear-capable missiles in Kaliningrad to threaten the Baltic nations and Poland.