“Think about it. The Russian goal has not been territory”
Their goal has obviously been to conquer territory.
They have done their worst to do so, short of nuclear and chemical weapons.
Most modern Militaries around the world teach doctrine based on the writings of Prussian Major General Clausewitz. In the USA and most of our Allies, we teach nine principles of war: objective, offensive, mass, economy of force, maneuver, unity of command, security, surprise, and simplicity.
In Russia, as in the Soviet Union, they add a tenth, which translates to something like “annihilation”, and concerns purging opposition in the population, to consolidate control after occupying an area. That is what “de-nazification” refers to.
It is explicitly a war crime under the Geneva and Hague Conventions, and a violation of the UN Charter, but remains a tenet of Russian thinking and practice to this day.
In fact I can almost understand the appeal nazism would have for northern europeans where you have the kalergi plan and Barbara Spector et al abd the scheme to totallly redo the genetic basis of Europe, but I hae a harder time seeing what appeal it would have for hohos, i.e. too much water over the dam since communism and the holodomor. The only conclusion I see is that that hohos are basically just messed up and stupid.