Putin has to destroy a brighter future for the people of Ukraine to prevent his own populace seeing that future as a possibility for themselves. There is a lot

Putin has to destroy a brighter future for the people of Ukraine to prevent his own populace seeing that future as a possibility for themselves. There is a lot of truth in that as well. I'm sure its a major driving force for him and others around him. They are a vestigial legacy that will cease to exist in any meaningful manor once most of the dictatorships and faux democracies fall.