If we're being real, he waited until the USA actually had its shyt togetherHe wants all of the benefits of Tsarist Russia (the autocracy, the Nationalism, the cultural hegemony, the Empire) with none of the drawbacks (the corruption, the military ineptitude, the backwardness, the contempt of Western society). He thinks he's above history, when he's just another cog in the world machine. Sad!
We pulled out of the Middle East and Afghanistan and our military has kinda been chilling.
Had he really wanted to do this, it would have been like 2007-ish.