False heir

If Putin really were to restore the empire... But you can’t do this for free. He is doing something else - he is surrounding Russia with rings of hostility (greetings from Voinovich). He is a fake imperial - in words. In fact, he is an isolationist.
Moreover, it fences itself off from the outside world, regardless of the political system of those states with which Russia is at enmity. Because she's at odds with everyone. And relations with Belarus and Ukraine do not necessarily have to be better than with Georgia just because there are regimes there that are far from democracy. Quite the contrary - it is a reason for rivalry and even greater hostility.

And now Putin can be congratulated on yet another achievement: the positions in the Arab world inherited from the Soviet Union have been completely lost. And this is truly an achievement – ​​within the framework of the tasks facing the current regime. But this does not mean that imperial expansion will no longer be part of Russian politics. Will. Both ideologically and practically, as during the attack on Georgia, which was similar to the Horde raid.

Yes! This is me, actually, in connection with this: