No, in what way does any of that support the argument that the war was motivated by Putin's personal desire for conquest. It is in fact not practical reality,

No, in what way does any of that support the argument that the war was motivated by Putin's personal desire for conquest. It is in fact not practical reality, it is a fiction created by the Kremlin. Claiming Ukraine isn't a sovereign state is Russian propaganda to obfuscate the obvious breach of international law, it is neither a genuinely held belief nor a reason for the war.