Agree with your first points, not sure about your second. People keep trying to impose rational goals onto Putin (like, "resources", or "NATO") while completel

Agree with your first points, not sure about your second. People keep trying to impose rational goals onto Putin (like, "resources", or "NATO") while completely ignoring the irrational ones he states outright. But actually there's plenty of evidence that he actually believes all this irrational horseshit about Ukrainians being a fake people invented by the Poles (who also started WWII). It's almost like people are generating Russian-style propaganda themselves in their own minds: reject what's in front of your face and substitute it with whatever story you're most prone to believing. Anyway, on a related note, this is perhaps the best series of videos I've seen on the historical background of the war. https://youtu.be/exJ024Zdzdk?si=5ICI4eG9lONN1joP https://youtu.be/exJ024Zdzdk?si=5ICI4eG9lONN1joP