It's quite simple. Resource extraction, and coloring more of the map in his country's color.

Russia's reasons for invading Ukraine mostly boil down to the same, although their country is so fucked, they actually need to forcefully graft 40 million people onto their population against their will, just so Russia can survive another generation, Russia is a doomed country demographically, America isn't, America is doing it just because. That's Ultranationalism and Fascism for you. Making enemies to distract yourself from internal strife

They’re physically large territories so the map looks very impressive, especially with the Mercator projection.

This is the man who redirected a hurricane with a sharpie. I don’t think there’s any more to it.

Putin's his master and handler. If the United States throws the high ground away and starts gobbling up neighbouring nations, it becomes that much easier to say "the West does it too".

@cyborganism@lemmy.ca

Maybe Canada will give the bankers and stock traders more thievingsraum?

In essence Trump is trolling, and people are falling for it. The distraction campaign is working.

This 'outrage' trolling is being used as a starting point for constant recycling of political and economic talking points.