>>514784830 (OP)
The real miscalculation was to dissolve USSR. 35 years after the end of the cold war, western mercenaries using western weapons are at the Russian border killing Russian citizens while Ukrainian citizens are press-ganged into service to serve as backup for them.
You may invent a billion justifications for it, but there are no Russian mercenaries killing Americans on the border of Florida. There are no Russian mercenaries killing Germans on the border of Germany, there are no Russian mercenaries killing English on the border of UK.
The truth is that the western world has elected to destroy Russia and genocide its people a century ago in order to take control of their landmass and their resources, and has not paused in this task even for a second.
This 'Cold' and 'Silent' attempt at genocide is the most insidious one yet, since any action undertaken by the victim is proclaimed as an act of aggression.
Even worse, the perpetrators of this genocidal war use proxies to attack Russia, expunging other nations in their pursuit of Russia-less world. Ukrainian nationality will die simply because too few of them were able to escape the concentration camp Ukraine, a nation of suicide bombers on collision course with their allie, for the benefit of their enemy.