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>AD 2025
>westoids still think this war is about some babushka villages in Donetsk oblast
Russia aimed from the start for regime change and turning Ukraine into Belarus 2.0, or at least nominally "neutral" like Georgia.
Then the next step was to force the West, using the Ukrainian shock and awe campaign (which failed), to yield and accept changes in the european security architecture in Russia's favour, including withdrawal of US/NATO forces from every country east of Germany and no US nuclear umbrella in Europe, among other things.
Google "Russia 2021 ultimatum".