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For lithium?
Not content with 1/6 of the world's land and resources, and his very own empire, Putin wants what others have. And he'll destroy everything rather than let them have it.
But it's not about resources. That makes no sense. And it's not about Russian security, that makes no sense either. It's about democracy, as Putin has openly stated.
If the UN was complying with it's Charter this would never have happened. This is exactly what the UN was created to prevent.
But, in 1991 corporate right interests controlling the US Governments implanted a non-member Russia into the UN, and dictators in control of Russia who removed democracy and joined them. And the US can remove them at any time. And is now using the second insane old dictator as a tool to destroy democracy in the UN and keep the rest of the world powerless and the corporate oligarchs in control.
In 1991 it was called the military-industrial complex, now the information giants have joined in and all but destroyed the democratic process of governments to do anything about it, through mind control.
That is why Putin has no concept of idealism. He's doing a job.