Well, what Maki really wants is to end the world, even if he's very bad about allying with other villains, using them, and then disposing of them when it suits him. He's a terrible ally, even if he'll play nice for a little while.

He'd be pretty okay with Viktor's fixation on machines--he's a dinosaur creature and, he thinks, more than human anyway, so he can understand that desire to improve upon human imperfection.