Nations only go to war when they want to steal another nations resources, Like the German and Japanese war, and the subsequent US war of retaliation in which they ended up controlling most of what the Germans and Japanese went after via the $US system. It's even been shown that the US supported the anti-colonial uprisings that stripped the UK and other old Euro powers of their Empires. From Africa to the Dutch East indies to India. Nothing wrong with that of course, but alas many of those nations are no better off now, some worse. At least the colonials kept the dictators in line and saw to it that decent infrastructure was built. They might have been exploiting but they brought stability. Look at the transport networks in those nations now, they are terrible.
Russia needs nothing from other nations, it has all the resources it could ever need but the Western European nations are bankrupt and very needy of resources. They have to import everything nearly. Russia's nation debt is about $250 Billion. One years oil exports would settle the books. I just don't see the Russian state as the aggressor in this war, all they were after in the ukraine was a security buffer, to keep NATO off the border. Just like Kennedy did over the russian business in Cuba.
The Russians gave up the USSR and all the satellite nations and NATO has pushed and pushed toward the border ever since. Anyone who thinks this is a wise policy is on the side of the Hawks who are happy to have a nuclear war with them. Those people are career warmongers and to some of them a limited exchange of warheads is just a calculated risk, like when I push a motorcycle through mountain corners a little too fast for safety. But it all comes down to Resources and always has. Food, Oil, Nat Gas, Coal, Minerals. It's been 85 years since the last big recourse grab so we're overdue. It's a very dangerous time and I don't see any of this being resolved easily. The West wants what Russia has and that's all there is to it.
Listen to this Stooge lecturing back in the 90's, she tells us Russia is mega wealthy in resources but has a crap economy because it's not exploiting them in an insane rush to build the utopian dream. She cites Japan and Taiwan, that have no resources but amazing economies. What she fails to say is the obvious fact that these amazing economies have only grown because of resources taken from other parts of the world. And how is the UK and Japan doing today? Heading into poverty because their temporary reliance on other peoples resources has failed because their economic models have failed. Meanwhile Russia is much the same as it was and with a bright future I suspect because of the abundant resources. It's why America was once rich. Abundant resources, now all but used up.
UK. Heat or Eat