[rosndo]

> For one, Putin seems to want to reassemble the USSR as a vanity project

Putin has almost exclusively bad things to say about the USSR, it is the Russian Empire he wants to restore.

[HWR_14]

I didn't mean the government of the USSR. I meant the geographic reach.

But you contend that Putin doesn't want the western tip of Ukraine, but instead to reclaim Finland, Alaska and parts of Poland? Because that's the only difference in his territorial ambitions.