ght for the Day: John Jay On Opportunism and War // (Steven Hayward).

David Jay, Federalist #4:

It is also true, however disgraceful it could be to human nature, that nations around the world in general will make war if he or she have a prospect of getting anything at all by it; nay, absolute kings will often make war any time their nations are to acquire nothing by it, but for typically the purposes and objects basically personal, such as thirst regarding military glory, revenge for private affronts, ambition, or exclusive compacts to aggrandize or perhaps support their particular families or perhaps partisans. These and a selection of other motives, which influence only the mind of the full sovereign coin, often lead him to have interaction in wars not sanctified by justice or the tone and interests of his / her people.

Just a hunch, but I actually doubt Putin has ever before read Typically the Federalist .