What kind of bumbling moron and monster do you have to be to believe that merely having aspirations--with no imminent threat, no chance of even joining due to the ongoing conflict in the Donbass--is justification for launching a war that has now lasted 7 months and has cost both sides tens of thousands of lives, including civilians?
Seriously, you’re wasting your time.
If the ghost of Stalin himself showed up with a zombie batallion and cast iron proof that they’d been summoned by Putin was put out by none other than Putin himself, and he said “stop crediting Bidens with my genius!” some oxygen thieving braindead magaloon somewhere would STILL say, “nononono no no no NO that can’t be right because it HAS to involve some game of Ten Dimensional Chess because we all know SOROS IS BEHIND IT ALL!”
Rusdua gives a while bunch of reasons why it’s invading Ukraine. They’re all circumstantially plausible.
What makes the collection of excuses not plausible is the fact that they can’t decide which real trigger, which last straw, which religious fanaticism or which existential threat actually matters.
The two things they don’t park are: Resources (oil, gas, minerals, grain, land, coast, and working nuclear power plants), and a romantic form of Revanchism that was first published in the mid 1990s, almost a decade before Euromaidan.
Everything else - to stop the 5000 nazis, to discourage NATO expansion, and so on - is an excuse after the fact. An afterthought not a motive.