Oh for fuck's sake! REALLY?!?!?!

All you need to do is to check out who financed the Bolshevik Revolution starting way back in at least 1916. This is important because already back then the West was trying to break Russia up and steal its lands. And they haven't stopped. Ukraine is the CIA/MI6 current operation of the West to push NATO right up to Russia's door. Stalin saw it coming, and he forcefully held it back. Too bad he didn't have better discretion in the way he did it. But, he did it. When the West broke its treaties - since the breakup of the USSR - with Russia to NOT push further East, they gave Russia every right to retaliate. The Ukraine police action was simply retaliation from Russia to maintain its self-preservation. Western media and governments have broadcasted how bad Russia is for so long that western peoples almost don't have any choice but to believe these lies.