If you actually study Putin and how he thinks from his point of view he has no other alternative to this war which seems crazy to Europeans and Americans

If you study what experts on Russia and Ukraine are saying now who have studied both for years, it appears that Putin considers himself in exactly the same position that President Kennedy did during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In other words from Putin's present point of view, he has no choice but to do this to prevent Missiles of NATO from being installed in a NATO alliance member Ukraine. It might be important to consider this because without it you don't really get what is happening here the way he is "from his point of view" protecting what is left of the Soviet Russian Empire which goes back hundreds of years maybe to almost 1100 AD. It's true that Ukraine was civilized long before Moscow was because if you go back to 900 or even 1000 AD Moscow was just forest and that's all without a city there at all.

So, you have to see here that just like the Cuban Missile Crisis almost caused a nuclear war, this situation could easily cause a nuclear war between Europe and Russia with the U.S. on the side of Europe too.

We live in very very very dangerous times right now like when President Kennedy was assassinated likely by the Soviet Union one year after the Cuban Missile Crisis. But, this was hidden from the American people because our government under LBJ didn't want a nuclear war..