But Putin also fights back the bigger empire that threatens his country land security.
Right. Ukraine "threatens" Putin because it
might join NATO, so let's occupy Ukraine and have a new border with four
actual NATO countries. Hmmm... there are more "threats" now. Gotta occupy them too.
Putin the little snowflake will not feel "safe" until he owns all of Europe. Even then, there is the US just across the pond...
That's not how they would see it. Moscow would have less than 10 minutes to respond if a missile comes from Ukraine. But it comes from Poland or Hungry or whichever countries behind Ukraine, they are able to respond to an attack with enough time.
If the country behind Ukraine will also pose a thread carrying missiles and weapons, Russia will also disarm them. That could be the case of course they will have to negotiate again to stop it as they did to Ukraine. This is all drama really, the West doesn't care about Ukraine. What does Ukraine contribute to the US except to deter Russia to have an excuse for the crumbling economy and now we can blame Russia for the inflation. Let's forget about the printing.