Well, it's 0400 tomorrow over there, I guess we all should've been loaded out & rollin' by now... oh, WAIT - this is 2022.
A handful of articles that some may find interesting given the current kerfuffle now that Putin has recognized the eastern areas as legitimate independent republics - and is, by all accounts, inserting some "peacekeepers."
ZeroHedge discusses
an article from Der Spiegel that asks "Is Vladimir Putin right?"
An addendum to that is an article from Dec 2017 regarding (at the time) newly declas docs that indicated pretty clearly that Gorbachev & Russia were given assurances that NATO had no intentions of moving eastward at all.
(Always get that shit in writing, no?)
Finally an interesting
article that interviews Finnish President Sauli Niinistö regarding his impressions of Putin, garnered over quite a few years of visits, meals, and even some shared ice hockey.