Is Russia an Empire?

I'm really interested in your use of the term empire, an imperial when it comes to the united states. Operationally isan empire, separate from just the pure that word is a majorityof part. But excuse me, i'minter in you describing the policy in ukraine as imperial in the sense that my reaction is, well, it seems that russia is being imperial here. And whether or not the us. Backs the ukranians with arms or not, that doesn't constitute empire to me. So if you take out the majorityv element out of it, then you can be kind of level headed and dum andd look at things in a realistic