Oy Vey.....
Putin needs $100+ oil to pay Russia’s bills. He needed saber rattling to get it back up there.
He got what he went for.
The majority of Russian Jews supported Putin in his election. The Jewish group I worked with surveyed Jews and found that the majority felt they had more personal and economic freedom in Russia under Putin than in the past.
The fact that rich Jewish entreprenuers are backing Putin confirms the fact that Jews like Putin. Even Netanyahu is working with Putin and Gozpram on laying lines from the Mediterranean gas fields into Cyprus to bypass the untenable Turkish pipeline.
This is good for our Israeli friends.
When the USSR collapsed and became Russia, much of the assets were bought up by high-ranking Communist Party members (who, for obvious reasons, were the only people with money under Communism). The old Communist elite became the new Capitalist elite.