Land - not in the sense of a garden plot, but in the sense of the territory of a state. For this, borders are needed. The theory of "might makes right" ended with the end of WW1.
For some reason, your compatriots did not want to unite in a "greater USSR", although their coat of arms had a world without borders.
So this war is not for imperialists or rich people - this is a war for order.
In any war there are those who profit from it. They do not even want it to end. This has always been and will be so, as long as there are wars.
Putler and Russian society are just a bad tracing of Stalin and Soviet society of the 30s of the last century.
Is there an English-language copy of the film "The Great Citizen" (1937) in the USA?
- Eh, twenty years after the GOOD/ BIG WAR to go out and look at the Soviet Union of republics from about THIRTY-FORTY. The devil knows how good it is! " (c)
View: https://youtu.be/rDou48ZskRQ
But Putler's ambitions ran into the Dnieper.