Yup. But, but the gig isn't up yet. Keep watching.

President Putin is an old Cold War spy who seeks to:

- reduce the USA's ability to counter Russian crypto-aggression to near zero (this has already been accomplished)
- destroy the EU and reduce Europe to a collection of fragmented competing states, rather than a unified bloc, using the "divide and conquer" tactic (he's exactly halfway there)
- surround Russia with a ring of buffer states (easy, once Europe fragments and NATO is eliminated)