Eurasianism

 NY Times: The Grand Theory Driving Putin to War By Jane Burbank - Dr. Burbank is a professor of Russian history, recently retired from New York University.

And his Eurasianism was not anti-imperial but the opposite: Russia had always been an empire, Russian people were “imperial people,” and after the crippling 1990s sellout to the “eternal enemy,” Russia could revive in the next phase of global combat and become a “world empire.”