“much of Putin’s long term plan involves things that put him on a collision course with all of the Western nations”
What are they? Reclamation of of the old Russian Empire? re-assimilation of the Russian Orthodox nations?
The Western countries have no interests there. They just don’t want Russia to have it.
Yeah, the Poles, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Romanians, Georgians, Hungarians, Slovaks, Czechs, and Germans east of the Elbe have no business running their own affairs. It’s just not fair that Russia cannot, with its superior Christian values (a State Religion employed by the Reverend Putin), kick the snot out of those people. It’s nobody’s business and certainly in line with the Gospels of Our Lord Jesus Christ.