I’d suggest you get your head out of your ***. They may not call themselves the Soviet Union, but the guy running the damned country is the former head of the most notorious mob of crooks, thieves and murderers since the Nazi Gestapo. Many of his mob of thugs are former KGB or sons of KGB. Communism is not dead in the Soviet Union. It collapsed under its own weight, it was not defeated. Puketin is attempting to reform all the old lost countries back into the SU. He wants Ukraine and the ports on the sea lanes it provides. Ukraine had SU ships and nukes before. It gave up the nukes when promised that it would be protected from the SU. How’d that work out? Puketin is looking towards Poland and the three Baltic nations. Finland is strengthening its borders because they take that possible threat seriously. Puketin is bedroom cozy with Big X in Red China. Oh, wait, you probably don’t call it RED China any longer. WRONG pal. IT is still RED. It has been since good ole Chairman Mao. It never went away like the SU did. It simply became pals with the USA to sell us all their cheap crap at Wal Mart. You call the SU whatever the hell you want to call it. I have called it the Soviet Union since I was in Jr. High School and clearly understood the threat they were to us. You go on and call it what you want to junior. I will call it what the hell it is, a COMMUNIST run government of liars, thieves, crooks, murderers, criminal gangs of thugs communist run by a thug as the old SU was!!
My understanding of Putin is that he wants to protect Russian ethics outside Russia. He’s not out to build a world empire anymore, which is beyond their ability anyway. He is not looking at most other Eastern European countries.
I understand that Putin is not a nice guy, but neither are the globalists who fomented this war with the intent to try and drain Russia for future conquest to get a hold of the resources of Russia.
He may want the sea lanes, but that’s because they were closed to Russia. Without sea lanes, Russia is a land locked country that can’t get its resources out into the international market.
Russia allied itself with China, because we tried to isolate Russia. Do you expect to do nothing while we work to bring it down so the globalists can take their resources for themselves?
China is invariably an evil country, but a friend when the globalists leaders have decided to shut Russia down in order to break it.
You may want to come back to the present, because this isn’t the 1950’s, when Russia was the Soviet Union, but the globalist have their eyes on America once they have broken Russia.