Putin will not lag behind if he is not stopped by force/Kremlin
There is nothing new in Putin's desire to “mow” under Peter the Great. He will strive to seize everything he considers “his”.
The Russian Consensus
If there are no historical arguments for this, he will come up with them, as in the case of captures of Peter I: these territories never belonged to Muscovy, but Russian history does not exist: it was written in Moscow.
In this written version, Ukraine also belongs to Russia and Putin. Moreover, the vast majority of Russians think so: both among the Russian elites and among ordinary Russians.
Assignments for the West
Parts of the West still don't understand this, or rather don't want to understand. We must explain to them “on the fingers” that the war can be suspended, but will not end, as long as the Russian regime, the imperial regime, exists.
And the West will become a part of this war, no matter how much it wants to move away from it. Sanctions, hybrid, military, information, whatever. Not imitations, but wars.
The story of “either we them or they us” concerns the West as well as Ukraine.
Therefore, for the West, Putin must become the one who closed a window to Europe.
Unlike Peter I, whom he so wants to be like.
