What's this? This is empty talk.
When you think that you can analyze why any country does anything, and then write it out in such a short OP, you are missing a whole lot of it. Russian goals and traditions go back at least a couple thousand years. And so does the Ukraine... although neither of them were called by those names back then, and their borders were way different back then.
When Putin and the Russian government try to follow their traditions and the goals of their ancestors, you don't know more than a tiny fraction of what is going on and why.
The difference with Zelensky is that he barely knows anything, and he and his government are only trying to gain land and make trouble for people. You can see this in the fact that since 2014 the Ukraine has been killing people in the Donbas region, because they were mixed Russian-Ukrainian families.
Now, when Putin wants to stop the killing, Zelensky mounts a gigantic war against Putin's police action. You have the whole thing backwards.
Putin started a war with Ukraine precisely in order to get its land. For this, he came up with a lie that Ukrainians are Russians, that they are one and the same people. Putin often says the phrase "bullshit", so the fact that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, this is bullshit. Revanchist Putin dreams of restoring Russia within the borders of the USSR and is ready to destroy millions of people to achieve this goal. After the capture of Ukraine, Putin will probably invade Kazakhstan, because he said that Kazakhstan as a state did not exist. By the way, if Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had not joined NATO, they would have been the first victim of Putin's plan to restore the former borders of the empire. Even before 2014, I wrote that after the Sochi Olympics, the Russians would invade Ukraine, which happened. I will find this article for you.
Oh, bloop. Often I present articles from Natural News at https://www.naturalnews.com/. But if you follow them, much of the bad stuff they talk about barely ever happens. Some of it never happens. What their motive is for talking as much bad stuff as they do, I don't know. But here is what I think it is.
When you write in an article that Russia is going to attack the Ukraine, if it happens, good guess. Write all the bad stuff you want. A piece of it will happen once in a while, and you can go back and say, "See? I told you it was going to happen. I wrote it down right here, and here is the article." You are such a good guesser.
You didn't know anything different than anybody else. Russia and the Ukraine have been attacking each other for so many decades that it isn't anything new to anybody. Most people simply ignore it, these days.
So, this time, when Putin kept from policing the wicked Ukrainian military until nobody could take the Ukrainian wickedness any longer, you like to blame Putin for finally trying to stop the Ukrainian wickedness, simply because he used war-like actions.
Keep your hate fire going. Soon it will destroy you, and we won't have to listen to any of your drivel any longer.
It is hard to disagree with you, the invasion of the Russian fascists and their disgusting violence against the civilian population in the occupied territory of Ukraine caused the hatred of the entire civilized world for the Russians. Russian criminals guilty of the death of thousands of Ukrainians cannot escape the tribunal and the corresponding severe punishment.