"It's high time the Slavic race was in charge of Europe."
Putin is channeling Stalin, and desperately wants to succeed where Stalin failed
Absolutely true that modern-day Russian culture is largely derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century. They never really left.
https://ricochet.com/1214468/finnish-intelligence-officer-explains-the-russian-mindset/
The Russian army was formidable only because we fed it. The book is "Feeding the Bear". Out of print now, and I curse the guy I lent my copy to. It never came back. Bottom line, if we had stopped our food shipments, the Red Army would have been starving in three months.
But Patton would never gotten traction with the FDR/Truman administration, because it was full of Stalinist fellow-travelers.
Of course in Stalin's mind, that didn't include Poles.
"I never loan out my books. My whole library is comprised of books I borrowed from other people." (Benjamin Franklin)