Putin doesn’t even want Ukraine. He may pay lip service to all those Russians living in the eastern half of Ukraine, but in reality he could care less.
For the USA, led by the communist puppet Joe Biden, to make any type of threats or demands against Putin and Russia, they fart in our general direction.
What then is Russia’s interest?
He wants the Eastern Part of Ukraine which is mostly Russian.
He has stated in the past, that he would be ok if the Western part of the Ukraine, which historically belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Poland, to become its own State free to join the EU and NATO, with main part of Ukraine, including Kiev, to be a neutral state.
I think this solution is the way to go.
True.
He may pay lip service to all those Russians living in the eastern half of Ukraine, but in reality he could care less.
False, for confirmation ask all those ethnic Russians in the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia that used to be under the Georgian boot.
Also you might ask Mikheil Saakashvili who went from Ukraine Hero to Georgian Prison for the Western "Policies" that Destroyed Georgia and Ukraine.
Hey to differ. Ukraine has a huge agricultural sector the largest open pit iron mine in Europe, the Antonov aircraft company, Odessa a large port on the Black Sea. Russia wants it back.