No, this is aimed at China.
One day China is going to wake up and realized all the resources they will ever need are just across the boarder in Siberia. Putin is worried that he might have to fight a two front war. He is trying to complicate the strategic picture for China
Interesting.
Right now Putin is thinking about the Stalin Hitler pact.
China made nice with Putin when it was in their interest to watch their rivals economically bleed in a proxy war in Ukraine. At any time China can decide now is the time, with Russia’s military tied down in Ukraine, to take back the parts of Siberia Russia took from China in the 1800s