I "upvoted" this earlier because I wholeheartedly agree with you. However, on reflection I would like to add some quality narrative from this Professor at the University of Chicago - which was a video made back in 2015. I strongly recommend anyone interested in the Ukraine/Russia situation to take the time to watch it and it will become crystal clear why Putin is doing what he promised he would do exactly 8 years ago! It is over an hour long but a lot shorter if you adjust the playback speed to 1.5 (by using the gear wheel)....I would not be surprised if this leads to WW3
