“But post-communist Russia is not the Soviet Union”
But doesn’t Putin want to restore the Soviet Union?
Simply put...
NO
He has more than enough on his hands with the changes going on there and Communist Dogma about taking over the world is dead and gone
Precisely. The tsarist Russian empire. Soviet empire. And since Marxism/Leninism has lost its panache he peddles oligarchic oil wealth and counterfeit Christianity as his mantle instead.
No, he wants to restore the Czarist Russian empire.
No, but I believe he absolutely is looking for a RUSSIA dominated USSR “area” over the same general area. But for “communism”? Not really.