As a reminder...Hitler was smart to want Russia for its resources. He just underestimated how distasteful that idea would look to Stalin and other Soviets.
The result: To resolve this conflict, the USSR sent a million-men-plus delegation to Berlin in May of 1945 to discuss the matter with Hitler and German women.
Today, NATO wants to do to Russia what Hitler failed. All that oil and the land Western corporations would love to own...Plundering Russia would be so much fun...
Again, Putin didn't see things the same way - hence a pre-emptive, Israeli-style, Special Operation.
Now, how do I know that NATO is out to get Russia? Actually, it's very simple...
You see, morons, Russia never had any intentions to invade the West. It would be like me relocating to a public outhouse with a family of six migrants inside. All Russia wanted was to live in peace and make its citizens more prosperous.
This is why one day Putin asked the US if the US would consider Russia's application to join NATO. A no-brainer if the US wanted peace and perpetual tranquility in Europe.
We used to be friends when Russia was a "communist evil empire" so no problem with Russia whose president goes to church and allows less happy Russians to leave the country - including Navalny. Right?
Wrong, The US wants to justify all things military, the MICC, NATO, and occasional wars. No wars, no profits from wars. So the US promptly told Putin to get lost. Just as Z was told to ignore Putin and have 600,000 men killed.
At that moment Putin knew that NATO was not a cuddly and peaceful organization. It was Operation Barbarossa all over again - admittedly a lighter and slower version...