Putin is playing into his advisor Dugin book "Foundations of Geopolitics",

This is a required reading.
Madmen of so called Euro-Asia Russia supremacy are fulfilling their plans right now in Ukraine.
FSI | The Europe Center - Aleksandr Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics (stanford.edu)

"I provide you with short excerpt. the full article is in a link.
In a moment of exultant imperial elan, Dugin revealingly trumpets at one point in his book, “The battle for the world rule of [ethnic] Russians has not ended” (213). It is necessary to speak the unvarnished truth. An official adviser on geopolitics to the speaker of the Russian Duma is a dangerous Russian fascist. As has been noted, Dugin also reportedly enjoys close ties to elements in the presidential administration, the secret services, the military, and the parliament. Although Dugin’s influence should not be exaggerated, it also should not be understated. One is required to ask whether Russian fascism–a tendency which exhibits contempt both for international borders and for international law–has a realistic chance of emerging as the “new political thinking” in international affairs in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In late 1998, Russian academic Andrei Tsygankov appropriately warned that the discourse of Dugin and of like-minded “Eurasians” is in reality “the discourse of war.”

After reading the article almost twenty years from original publishing date, and comparing what we are experiencing now geopolitically, looks like a race to see who can be the most fascistic on the international stage.
Given the west social engineered the Bolshevik take over of Russia a little over a hundred years ago, seems they have reason to be a bit belligerent over that debacle, currently and going forward.

Yes, lets blame everything on West. Without a corrupted minds of Russian elites and masses, the money that NYC bankers sent to Russia to spread so called revolution would have yielded nothing. Ever heard about personal individual responsibility or conscience?.

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Blame is a 360 degree circle for establishing the reason of events, many happenings contribute, others are of major influence.
One is using and manipulating people and ideas. Read James H. Billington’s “Fire in the Minds of Men”. The world has always had a plethora of useful idiots.