I Blame Communism
Banned
So could this be a potential outcome? Germany turning Ukraine and Belarus into lebensraum while turning the rest into a puppet Russian Empire controlled by Nazi Collaborators and white Russian allies?
Nope. That admiration of the Russian ruling class was based on the supposition that they were German, or otherwise racially different from the Bestial Slavs, who had since the revolution of course been under the insidious control of the Commie Jews. As a class they had been destroyed: either they were dead, or they were in exile and out of the picture, or they had rebuilt their lives and were now ordinary members of Soviet society who were going to be worked to death as slaves, shot out of hand, or deliberately starved same as the rest.
And remember that the Nazis believed in a sick 'Darwinist' idea of human history with peoples battling for supremacy. They admired Britain for trampling smaller peoples and establishing a world empire, but that doesn't mean they got on well with us.
And they respected Soviet collaborators enough to shoot them whenever they felt like it: several hundred OUN organisers were shot at Babi Yar for suggesting that Ukrainians were people.