“More or less stated” is imagination. It’s either stated or not stated, and if it’s not stated it’s imagination. This is not complex.
And so. Europe has nothing Russia wants. In fact, they have a great deal of various things Russia actively does not want. They add nothing to Russia’s standard of living. Oil and gas do that.
You are delusional. Putin wants the restoration of the USSR countries, nothing less.
Very big F-16 exercise in Romania to day, sort of coincidental to the Storm Shadow attack on Belbec