when you employ a FSB agent as President you know what you are goping to get , dirty tricks , aggression , control and thuggery . Add in a few phsychoses about being short and you have a recipe for another Hitler or Stalin trying to leave a legacy of creating an empire .
Instead, he stuffed up a very large and well endowed nation rather completely ---- if he actually set out to wreck russia hard to see how he could've done more .