[BroJoeK]

SACK UP: "There seems to be some confusion regarding Russia and Putin.
Russia is not the Soviet Union and Putin is not Stalin."

Naw... no confusion.

Russia is what's left of the Old Soviet Empire.

Old Soviet KGB Lt.Col. Vladimir Putin is today's Stalin.

In 2005 Ex-KGB agent Putin said, "The breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century."

Here is Vlad the Invader following in the footsteps of his ancestors:

Russian threats to neighbors since 1991:

1. Azerbaijan (1990–1994);[1][2]
2. Moldova (1992–present);
3. Georgia (2004–present);
4. Lithuania (2006);
5. Estonia (2006–2007);
6. Poland (2006–present);
7. Belarus (2007);
8. Ukraine (2014–present);
9. Syria (2015–present);
10. Turkey (2015–2016);
11. Kazakhstan (2021–2022) ;[3] and
12. Armenia (2022) [4] amongst others.[5]

Vlad misses the "good old days" of Cold War I, and so has ignited Cold War II -- as a nostalgia trip, if nothing else.

[blitz128]

Agreed, the fall of the Soviet Union and its power has ate at Putin’s guts for decades.

The “reasons” given like Ukrainian nazis were cover for his dreams and desires

The “threat “ of NATO, were only partially true. Not the part about NATO attacking Russia, but he knew that if Ukraine became part of NATO his dreams of expansion were over.