Putin's on record saying something like the dissolution of the soviet republics is the greatest tragedy of the 20th century.
He's annexing Ukraine as part of that vision.

His stated reason for doing so now is to protect the Ukrainian people from their (Jewish) nazi President.

Putin was all, Hey Ukraine if you ask to join NATO, I'm gonna war you. @NATO if you let them in I will war.
Ukraine doesn't get into NATO and Putin does this.
Now other countries are like, "We no longer have any choice than to join NATO." and Putin's all, if you do that I will war you.

Your assertion that Putin fears a NATO invasion is unjustified. Putin only fears the ex-soviet states joining NATO because that will make it much, much harder for him to annex them into Russia.


It's folly to underestimate your enemy, and I don't take offense to acknowledging that Putin is a smart man, but he's also an evil man, bent on a fictitious former glory that never existed. His vision is not widely shared by the Russian people or other Russian businessmen and political leaders. But Putin controls them, and the price of disagreement is a charge of treason.

Still, thousands of Russian people are not suckling at the propaganda teat, and are protesting in over 50 cities. Thousands have been arrested.


If the current estimates of death toll on Russia is to be believed (>3,500 lives lost in less than 4 days), that's more fatalities that the US suffered during the entire occupation of Afghanistan.

This is a blight on the Russian people.