What normies think of Putin's motives is irrelevant - its plunging Europe into an energy crisis showing Europeans how incompetent their leftist leaders really are. Remember the Great Awakening is a global movement. It's driving energy prices up worldwide and that's at least getting normies perked up to the point where they inevitably ask "isn't there something my government can do about this??? Gas is $10 a gallon!!!" At which point they learn that the left's climate change green energy farce is worthless and that populist leaders were correct to push for energy independence using traditional fuels. All pieces of the greater puzzle that are slowly being put together. They use such "rah rah" virtuous language to push their green agenda that the normies get stars in their eyes as they nod and "say yea wow green energy sounds great! Let's use batteries for everything! And wind and solar!!!" It's not until you SHOW them how unrealistic that all is IN THE REAL WORLD where the rubber meets the road in a true energy crisis. It's only then they MIGHT wake up. This should be enough to see how this is all part of the plan. Next phase will be the Chinese invasion of Taiwan which will accomplish the goal of waking normies up to our reliance on Chinese goods. It won't be a gas and oil shortage it will be an everything shortage. Think of everything that has a "made in China" tag on it. TLDR: Russian war is to show normies that green energy is a joke Chinese war will show normies we need Made in USA goods