This is why I say this is a resource war and not one of religious differences , and if you look at a map and just look at at the total land mass that RUSSIA has . They already won . Thats why these arguments that the west try’s to make that PUTIN is land grabbing are utterly ridiculous . Putin already stated that he doesn’t know how he’s going to develop the millions of unexplored acres he has now . Everything could be in there from coal to gold to silver platinum , titanium , lithium really the sky is the limit . The west is largely the void of any real resources . And stealing for them is better then finding and having .