Oh sure, Putin has just launched a dozen invasions of former Soviet slave states in the last couple decades for fun.
That’s because the US has been inciting mischief in these surrounding countries in those decades in an attempt to completely surround Russia and threaten their security. Quit falling for the deep state neocon propaganda. Instead of pissing away $10 trillion on all of these worthless wars that accomplished nothing, we could have used that $10 trillion to develop fusion energy. But that of course would cut into the profits of the arms industry, and we can’t have that.