Of course he is. Just because you change a country name doesn’t mean they all stop being who they are and what they believe. He wants to rebuild the soviet borders as much as he can and more if possible, nd be regarded on the level of the other czars who expanded territory. Not much time left.
And to be clear i think all sides of this conflict are wrong. No side is right in this. Putin. Zelensky. Biden. They are all sucking hard to legacy build and destroy the world.
Boom. 100% correct.
One can regard the government of Ukraine as being very corrupt and evil and still wish to see as much damage done to Russia as possible. Never forget those bastards had and still have nukes aimed at us. Good Russky=dead Russky