Tactically it started with crimea since that base is an existential necessity for their navy. Then  in order to secure the land bridge to crimea they must secure the donbass.

Strategically they need a friendly or at least neutral Ukraine gomen to act as a buffer towards nato and Western europe. That is why they didn't move against crimea until orange revolution.

Putin edi said in his speech that the key to hvaing a lasting peace is for europe to respect their respective sphere of influence. Same as why north jorea can't reunify.

Ok. 18 Jan Day 1 mana Day 1? Go on Putin, sacrifice another 1.5% of your male population while your population is ageing.

Just noticed that fatherland fertility rate still beats motherland and best asians. Sad. A Taiwan war will result in the extinction of mongoloids at this rate.

Whole of Europe also aging. Ww3 will be fought with a bunch of geriartric grandpa's flying drones from their wheelchair

Who said Russia is losing? But what is winning?

Putin has sacrificed 1.5% of Russia's male population and the war has gone on for almost 4 years. For what? If Russia conquers Ukraine, will they have peaceful relations with NATO? What was the point of Putin invading Ukraine?

Once again you are just a stupid keyboard warrior who can't explain why he supports this stupidity.

At birth there are more male babies than female babies in Russia, but less than half of those male babies make it to the age of 65. If you go be a Russian citizen, you have less than 50% chance of making it to Russian retirement age.

Do you know the reason why there are so little male over 65?
Before you want to push your narrative that Russia government is bad. Look at what happen in history. The reason is that it was due to WW2. Russia and Ukraine and previous country under Soviet has all the same ratio of male over 65, because they sacrifice to fight world war 2 against Germany.

Their sacrifice for the world that we know of today become your excuse to push your narrative.  That is really low .