What the first video recommends is to have Ukraine be a neutral country to prevent attempts by the west to co-opt it into NATO. Imagine us finding China trying to get Mexico to join its anti west defense organization and having Chinese bio-weapons labs in Mexico.

That is why we have the Monroe Doctrine. "The Monroe Doctrine was a United States foreign policy position that opposed European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It held that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers was a potentially hostile act against the U.S.[1] The doctrine was central to U.S. foreign policy for much of the 19th and early 20th centuries.[2]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine

The US and NATO have been trying to provoke Putin.