You useful idiots would be talking about western provocation of Germany if this was the 1930s, and would be cheering on the joint Nazi-Russian attack on Poland.
Putin has made known his desire to swallow up his neighbors just as Hitler made no secret of his desire to do the same.
And I think some believe the world has to be divided among two great powers China and the US Russia stands in the way of that.
You have it ass backwards. NATO and their Nazi formations were determined to finish ethnic cleansing and to grab control of eastern Ukraine and Crimea after the coup in Kiev in 2014.
Putin learned the lesson of appeasement in Munich and realized only military action would stop things. So he rolled after finally understanding that the DC/London/Kiev Reich was simply beyond diplomacy.