Okay, so we’ve beat the first two world wars to death. How about we not go poking a bear with a history sacrificing tens of millions of its own people to level the cities of an invading power?
We're not poking the bear - they're poking the free world. Your reasoning led to Munich, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the deaths of tens of millions of Europeans. The Russian will to empire has remained constant all through the Romanov, Bolshevik and post-Bolshevik regimes. The Russian people will not be sated until they either rule the world or are completely defeated in the manner of the German people.