Remember when the always clueless MSM declared that history was “dead” following the collapse of communism?
Heh!
Russia—no matter who’s leading it—either wants the Ukraine and the ‘stans (Kazakhstan, etc.) back; or else at least doesn’t want them under the control of a foreign block.
Foreign blocks (read: USA, EU) want to keep Russia out, so as to be kept weak (and expand on the “New World Order” idea).
It’s the Great Game, just being played all over again.
Putin isn’t Hitler; his successors will have the same goals;
and Cameron’s “... there’s a different and better way for Russia to behave that could lead to an easing of relation...”
is simply ignorance of the reality of Russian interests,
which will propel Russia’s actions.