Conflicts on this scale can seldom be reduced to just a single issue.
That is why they seem so confusing to comprehend.
One group saying its because of A, another B, and we eventually
run out of letters of the alphabet like this.
But lets look at the recent history.
The annexation of Crimea was the pivotal point.
At that time Putin certainly said he was not going to attack Ukraine,
as voices in the west were claiming he wanted a land-bridge,
linking Crimea to Russia, and thus he planned to take south Ukraine too.
Putin denied this.
Then Ukraine cut off the water supply to Crimea,
which was probably not a good idea,
but I am not claiming to have all those details,
and would like to know more about that.
But we also need to look at what causes wars generally.
Its not an easy thing to convince a bunch of soldiers
to go and risk death in war.
At the start of the Donbas (etc) conflict after 2014,
when the west accused Putin of sending in his troops to
fuel that conflict, Putin said that they were acting as individuals,
and not in their military capacity as Russian soldiers.
Now that told me, that the conflict was occurring on the level
of the individual. Why would Russian-Ukrainians WANT to fight
in that region? What was motivating them?
After all, whatever ethnic differences had been there, going
back to the fall of the soviet union. Why only NOW is it a war?
The militant mindset is vulgar, barbaric.
It seems those soldiers simply wanted something, and were
prepared to risk death to get it.
What can motivate that?
Only base personal advantage of some sort...
But we need to put this into the context of
everything that is going on in the wider world right now.
And the primary reason for all such wars has to be
simply competition over resources, which is fueled
by over-population.
So why would two food-rich nations be fighting over farmland?
It makes no sense on the surface.
But being food-exporting nations is not the same as having
an abundance of food. That food exported is part of trade,
so it cannot simply be given to locals without depriving
other locals of whatever they are trading with it.
Today we see about 100 countries world-wide in food riots.
You will not get that info in the MSM, though.
You need to visit free speech websites like bitchute
to see what is really going on in the world.
So it comes down to a food fight, like most serious wars.
And the worst deprivation, where people are being literally
bolted into their apartments in a lock-down, and being
literally starved to death (with few even seeing it) is Putin's
big ally: China.
The real trigger of all the ills over the last half-decade
is when China moved from 1 child per family to 3.
They then 'annexed' the fishing grounds of the south china
sea in the nine-dash line incident, all the while over-fishing
their quota by as much as 700% on the wider ocean.
But why does Russia make this THEIR problem?
I can only conclude that the invasion of Ukraine
was a CCP psy-op to feed the starving communist masses of china.