Putin is still a Communist.
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.
That's good, isn't it?
Funny that there are a great many supposed conservatives and pretend patriots who don’t realize this. The Evil Empire is still the Evil Empire; barbarians with nukes and no aspirations short of world domination, anyone who speaks with other than condemnation of anything the Russians do is no better than any unreformed Stalin apologist of the 1930’s or 1940’s, at best a useful idiot.