Russia Ukraine war, page-226140

Russia has no interest in conquering Europe. That was the days of Communism. Yet NATO has promoted war to keep its funding.
Here are the Declassified Documents from the Clinton Administration. When communism fell in 1991, there were proposals that Russia join NATO.

NATO should have been defunded and shut down in 1991. Its sole purpose was to defend Europe against Russian communism. When communism collapsed, so did the idea of expanding to defeat capitalism, as a good Marxist would advocate.