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For Russians, this is geopolitical question.
What I mean, they feel themselves imperfect, if size of their country does not correspond with their weight in world. Very similar to what WW1 and WW2 causes. - In approx 1900, Germany becomes one country (before, there where many small principalities, and no central power lasts long). So appear new country, powerful country, and they look on world and see colonial system, where nearly ALL powerful countries has colonies.
I mean whole world where divided between top countries. First, Germany tried to reach an agreement with top countries, to cut some colonies from other countries and assign to Germany, but without fast success, because pre WW1 agreements system where extremely sophisticated, and they just cannot rebuild this system fast. Than German powers conclude, that they could faster got wanted if make war, that's all. To be more precise, Russia is large, but economically, it's position is worst in world, except Mongolia.
- Russia have longest in world size of land borders, near no borders on mountains, very little number of possible sea ports; extremely large territory is just ice, nothing could grow there. - Russia really have reliable access to sea only in few places - Baltic, Black sea/Azov, and on Pacific, this is extremely little, for so large number of citizens (approx half of US). BTW, current Russia situation is much better, than for example 200 years ago, because that time they had neighbors, who demand very high fees for access to sea.
To solve this, Russians occupied their neighbors - 300-200 years ago, Russians near constantly invade neighbors and assimilate them into their empire, so now they have another problem, google Belfast. Now, Russians trying to work less crude, they trying to place puppet governments in all neighbors countries. Ukraine have borders with three EU countries, and is one of the largest counties on Black sea, so Ukraine is extremely interest for logistics. And unfortunately, current Ukraine don't have effective government system, as I said on another comment, current Ukraine officials are extremely corrupted and extremely illiterate. So Russians concluded, that Ukraine could be easy target for occupation and/or to place puppet government, and prepared for invasion and invade. I don's think, Russians really plan to assimilate Ukraine, most probably, planned scheme where similar to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact BTW exists excellent movie, very good show atmosphere in Warsaw Pact countries:
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