RE: the secret to contentment in life..24 Jan 2022 14:40
92% of Ukrainians voted to approve Independence in 1991. They are proud people and will fight to keep their independence, as they have been doing since 2014.
Putin has learned from the illegal occupation of Crimea, Ukraine, that there is little appetite to remove them by force. This encourages him to go further and reclaim Ukraine, most likely the territory east of the river Dnieper. Putin wrote a lengthy essay in 2021, and his intentions are very clear.
The propaganda about NATO is a charade and will simply be used to justify his actions to the Russian people, who have of course been indoctrinated since birth to despise "the west".