Russia isn't invading or conquering Ukraine. Russia is devouring and absorbing Ukraine.

Not even that. Russia is doing whatever Russia has to do based on NATO's actions.

Nothing would even have happened in the first place if NATO had respected its own agreements and not put nazis in power in Ukraine, who then went on to do to ethnic Russians for the past 10 years what Israel has been doing to Palestinians for the past 80 years.

And then the US forced Russia to launch its SMO by doing precisely what they knew would launch it.

And then the US/NATO blocked the Ukraine-friendly peace treaty that was ready to be signed after barely 2 months, since as you mentioned, this was intended to be a quick "sit the fuck down" bitchslap.

But NATO kept of stringing this along, and kept on furnishing the Ukrainazis with longer and longer range weapons, which means that Russia obviously has to "devour and absorb" more and more of the territory in order to maintain a buffer zone within which NATO missiles can't reach Russian territory.

The initial takeover of the territories occupied by ethnic Russians was done to protect them from the NATO-funded nazis who had been shelling them since 2014. The territories that will be taken on top of this are entirely on NATO, because Russia isn't going to let a NATO-controlled nazi-filled country be within reach of its people. Duh.

Russia isn't the country that went back on every single treaty and spent the past several decades building military bases and staging coups all over the world, specifically surrounding Russia and China.

Russia wants a buffer zone, outside of NATO missile range, to keep its territory safe from NATO aggression. That's not only reasonable but straight-up necessary. If it means that they have to take over the whole thing because of NATO aggression, I wish them all the best.

We, in the West, are the ones on the wrong side of history, yet again.