Putin is not a single person who warranted the war, he's simply a frontend avatar of a cabal, which itself exists as a portent of turbulent historical processes. Russia has proven itself able to exist only under the imperial aegis, which is not good or bad per se, but simply most logical from the PoV of its historical evolution towards resource markets-exploiting asabiyyah, marked with oscillations between cosmopolitical and autarkic attractors. Now autarkic attractor is on the rise.