By clinging to American primacy through force and intimidation, Donald Trump is, ironically, undermining US global power. A saboteur trying to subvert US interests from the inside could hardly do better than what he’s accomplished through sheer incompetence.
Putin’s primary objective is to cause enormous chaos in all aspects of American life, according to Foundations in Geopolitics, the Russian playbook:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Any “stuff” he gets - land, territory, money, etc.- is all gravy. All he really wants is for America to devolve into such disorder and chaos, that their influence in the world dissolves.
Yes absolutely but that will not be Russia who will be the winner at the end.
Right now China is moving it’s pieces really well and making a lot of allies that will last longer that a war and force will bring