For those who have a PBS subscription or have the ability to watch PBS, the show Frontline is going a special report on Putin's Path to War.
They have done several must watch shows on Putin and his ways over the years. The one on the 2016 Election and his interference on that was excellent. Bottom line it was a FU to America and to democracy as a whole. End of story. The fall of the Soviet Union in his mind was the largest and most tragic political event in history.
There are some extremely well versed and intellectual honest interviews that have been done with experts on this topic and it's going to be an eye opener.
I know I am in the extreme minority in this forum about the western world dealing with Putin and dealing with him now. His balls and his wings need to be clipped before we are down a path that we all regret. The West and NATO need to start drawing their own redlines and pushing the offensive back, it's not just Putin driving here because he has passengers onboard the insanity train. We have Iran with a potential nuke threat, we have North Korea and we have China. How the democracies of the world deal with this will be vital as it will either show the other powers what our response will be or what they will be allowed to get away with.
Every single thing that this man has done over 22 years in power, nobody thought he would do. Nobody ever suspected it was possible and he keeps pushing and pushing and pushing some more. Now that he is embarrassed, isolated, scared, paranoid, humiliated and a whole host more, we are suppose to just sit around and take his multiple nuclear threats in the span of 2 weeks as what? Empty? Apple, Netflix and Visa sanctions will do it? Does he need a phone and the ability to buy lunch?
The trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaUefbpmV08
One of the best interviewers who has been reporting on Putin as a Russian/American journalist for years. The youtube channel has some more interviews that are excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSNo2FPQDQw