I'm not sure there is a specific model to fascist economics, but apart from that dont disagree.
Putin wants to reunite the ethnic Russian people, whether they want to be re-united or not. He wants to counter Russia's very real demographic problem of an aging population and low birth rate - but hes not stupid. He makes careful calculations about the costs and benefits and the likely reaction from the west and was encouraged by lack of serious reaction in relation to Chechnya, Georgia and Transnistria - hence Crimea.
If you want peace in Donbass and no further expansionist conflict then arming Ukraine is the way to go. Not doing so will lead to more deaths, not fewer.