Sorry, I don't know English well, but can't go by and not correct such a naive view of what's going on, if something is unclear - ask me again, I will formulate

Sorry, I don't know English well, but can't go by and not correct such a naive view of what's going on, if something is unclear - ask me again, I will formulate it in other words. The culture wars seem to be true, it is a very convenient narrative for an outside audience. But Putin doesn't need the resources, or rather the people who are interested in the resources are a bit lower in Putin's food chain. Putin himself needs to stay in power if he doesn't want to go to jail for life and lose everything, along with his "Ozero" cooperative, because that's exactly what any next president whom Putin doesn't have by the balls will do. And for that he needs conflicts with the old narrative of a "strong leader" who will enemies "kill in a toilet" and therefore no one but Putin is good enough. And Ukraine does not stand out here against the background of him past "merits", because it is quite natural for authoritarianism to increase the degree of violence, otherwise a weak "leader" autocrat will be swept away by a more brutal neighbor in the "elites", or even a "color revolution" will work. This was the case in 1999 with Chechnya when Putin blew up houses in Russia pretending it was Chechen terrorism. In 2008 with Georgia the Kremlin propaganda called it a "small victorious war" after which the whole world stuck its tongue up its ass and Putin liked it. Then in 2014 Putin decided to repeat the "small victorious war" now with Ukraine, and again the whole world was imitating stormy activities instead of listening to the opposition in Russia, which was already shouting that Putin is a thief and a murderer. And now it's turned into a full scale war in 2022, and it's only going to get worse from here until Putin die. That's roughly how things are IRL in my opinion, so resources are not the goal here.