>>22043823Control. Putin wants to rebuild the USSR and his opening move was Crimea. He's getting old and needs to build a legacy beyond the failures and his KGB work. What better legacy than a resurgence of the USSR? He thought it would be an easy maybe month long operation. He didn't expect this fierce of a resistance let alone that the whole western world would unite against him. As such he has to ally himself with America's enemies like China and North Korea. Additionally he has to change the way his people view the west to fall more in line with America bad.
In short this is a politicians war and it will go down as Russias Vietnam an unwinnable conflict with no clear goal for victory.
