At least he doesn't think he's Hitler.
Peter the great was a modernizer, a Tsar who looked West.
There are worse Tsar's he could be in awe of.
The West spurned Putin's attempts over the years to become as they are.
That's what he sees in Peter the Great.
Who was also not accepted by the Western Powers.
So he made War.
#13 The Ukrainian military mined their own waters. It's the mines preventing grain shipments,not a "blockade". The Ukrainian ultranationalist obsession with "territorial integrity" is the problem. Why do they want regions that don't want to be part of the Ukraine? They want the land and infrastructure.
The people will be slaughtered if they win.
They DON'T want them.
But that's all good, right?