Its called rebuilding the Russian empire.
"Without Ukraine the 'Russian Empire' cannot exist" Alexander Dugin, Putin's Nazi ideologue, says it clearly. What he calls the 'Russian Empire' is the USSR whose mummy Putin wants to resurrect.
The Russians have clearly shown they are in no position to try such a silly initiative. There is no empire to be had. Theyve been stalemated for 3 years almost, for a few slivers of Ukraine.
Pure bunk, that is the propaganda ruse to garner support & hatred for Russia & Putin, period.
This conflict didn't start with Russian aggression, it started with NATO expansion aggression. NATO was started when the USSR existed because they were aggressively building an empire to combat the US empire that was rising up from the victory of WWII, shortly on the heels of WWI.
There was a period where we were the face of good, but power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. My country no longer resembles the country I was born into, sadly enough.
We lost our moral compass when we ejected the Lord from the public square. The debauchery has only continued to expand ever since, and the good is all but gone from the majority of Americans.