If Putin negotiated at this point to simply hold control of the Donbas, the Crimean peninsula and the “bridge” territory to the latter, while allowing the rest of Ukraine to remain under a puppet regime of the Western elites, it would represent substantially less control than he had prior to 2014.
In other words, we can’t say he’s even being aggressive until pushing beyond the borders of Ukraine. So far he is simply trying to take back a portion of what was strategically lost in the 2014 Maidan coup.
Russian supporting morons can't understand why free people would want to join EU and its standard of living vs some pathetic Russian-Stan (CISFTA) economic bloc.