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What else can they do when "Neighbour of peace" can't go more than 5 years without invading one of it's neighbours without risking internal conflicts. The national stability of Russia is hardlinked to feeling that the world has wronged them and eternal victimhood, it's everyone elses fault they live like sub-saharans and they should "get some payback".
Pax Russia would be the end of it and lead to civil war.
Ukraine knows this too damn well and didn't just wanna sit with a thumb up it's ass till its turn to be the "big baddieâ„¢".