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It's literally because Putin became aware of his mortality and wants to be immortalized in the history books as a great conqueror and unifier of the Russian people. This early onset of senile psychosis couple with the absolute corruption that plagued Russia combined to become one of the worst fiascos to occur in Europe in nearly a century.

He was so convinced that Ukrainians were dying to be reunified by Russia he thought he could just walk in there and be accepted with open arms. He'll gladly sacrifice everything to win not because he's scared that he'll be toppled if he loses the war but because he so desperatly wants to be remembered as a great Russian hero.