Why is Putin still DOING this?

[Wilson23]

Why is Putin still fighting this war? He must see clearly that his original goal of installing a pro-Russian government in Kyiv is impossible. All he can hope to gain is a little border territory Russia does not need.

 

[briancamdudetenger2018]

Why is Putin still fighting this war? He must see clearly that his original goal of installing a pro-Russian government in Kyiv is impossible. All he can hope to gain is a little border territory Russia does not need.

i think its because rasputin wants to reunite all of the former ussr countries back together and bring back the soviet union

 

[Wilson23]

i think its because rasputin wants to reunite all of the former ussr countries back together and bring back the soviet union

No, to bring back the Russian Empire, in some form -- but Putin, despite his background in the KGB, is no Communist.