Funny Europeans and westerners don’t care when existential threats are around for so much of the world because of the west. No one cares when my parents country existence is screwed and we lose democracy because of the west. The victim mentality of westerners is quite something.
Putin can say what he wants. He is a politician. Russia has no ability to do all of that.
“Free world”. westerners always try to push their capitalist “freedom” onto the world as the one “free” way. When it isn’t freedom. Also another point of western chauvinism to refer to the primary colonizers and exploiters of the world as the “free world”
Look up the Minsk agreements, that Putin wants to take control of all of Ukraine. And Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. And parts of Finland.
This does not stop with a few towns in Eastern Ukraine, this is existential for many countries of the Free World.