Vladimir Putin, Russia's undisputed national leader is reported to have the quest of reviving the old Russian Empire and is rumored to take Alaska, a former territory, now a U.S. territory, back to its former old mother country.
Putin's dream of reviving the old U.S.S.R. can be evidenced by the Russo-Georgian war where South Ossetia and Abkhazia became independent territories of Georgia via Russian military intervention, the Russian invasion of Crimea, the civil war of Ukraine's DONBAS REGION being backed by Russia, and the recent Russo-Ukrainian war where Russia is the aggressor.
Due to the independence of South Ossetia, and Abkhazia from Georgia due to the military succor of Russia, the said new independent states became technically satellite states of Russia. In view also of the Russian invasion of Crimea, the same became part and parcel of the new map of the IRON CURTAIN.
Belarus, a close neighbor of Russia, fearing its safety, technically became a satellite territory of Russia, and has connived with Russia in many aspects. Belarus even became the entry point of Russia in attacking militarily Ukraine.
Under Putin, the Russian territory has widened, and its geopolitical influence became gargantuan, but Eastern Europe's democracy is in peril. In conjunction with this Putin must be stopped, since he is like a mad man having ambitions to widen the territory of his so-called "beloved motherland" via war and violence.
Based on the past actions of Putin, he wants to regain the lost SUPERPOWER STATUS of the former Soviet Union by expanding the influence of Russia internationally, as a matter of fact, he ventured into the civil war of Syria siding with the Syrian dictator, Bashar Hafez Al-Assad. Once Al-Assad and the Syrian military win the civil war Putin and Russia would wield gigantic political and economic powers in that part of the Middle East.
Once Russia regains its SUPERPOWER STATUS, the same might revert to communism because Putin is a hardcore communist. Putin was schooled as a communist, he served in the Soviet Secret Police or the KGB, and he was the right-hand man of Boris Yeltsin, a communist hardliner himself before Putin rose to power.
If ever Russia would go back to communism after regaining its geopolitical hegemony status, it is going to spew evil again by trying to conquer small but democratic countries of the world and preach hatred against free speech, freedom to travel, freedom of religion, private ownership, freedom of suffrage, and freedom of assembly.
In view of these premises, Putin must be stopped. The United Nations, the European Union, and the mother of democracy, the United States of America, must find ways to quell Putin's gigantic political ambitions because the same might pave the way for greater global damage.