What is Putin’s real reason for invading and committing mass genocide and atrocities in Ukraine? It seems to shift weekly from a NATO threat to a supposed ‘de-Nazification’. All the while rueing Gorbachev for letting the USSR disintegrate. In the meantime, oligarchs are going missing at an alarming level. Kind of ironic that he’s really just an old fashioned John Waynesque cowboy throwing his weight around the wild east. On horseback too.