However, when you look at history, the picture is a bit different.
Back at the time of and after WW1, the US wisely set the current Russian government in place by supporting the Bolshevik Revolution against the Tsar government. Why? Probably to use the new Russia to offset the German threat, while at the same time trying to take over Europe for the US.
Russia followed through with its US purpose in WW2. It was Russia that conquered most of Germany back then.
But the US didn't have as its only goal to take over Europe... which was done thru Nato. The US wants the whole world. The people of Russia simply want their own country. So, as the US pushes forward with Nato, Russia is going to fight to keep herself free from US aggression.
It's not so much Russia invading Ukraine or any other country as it is Russia pushing back against Nato and a US, that are forever spreading toward world conquest. Of course, the conquest is being done mostly through deceit and trickery. One of the only reasons the world remains free is that the agents of the old Russian KGB understood what was going on, and saw through the trickery and deceit of the US and Nato. Putin and others in the Russian government are former KGB.
Japan was right in WW2 when they called US as it truly is... imperialism.
If you are in the mood for a good movie that shows a little of how real espionage works, try "The Kremlin Letter" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmuKDVIpc1I. I need to watch "The Kremlin Conspiracy," a modern movie... to see how it compares.