For what reason would Russia want to attack the EU? I am sure that if the EU started a genocide against ethnic Russians in the same way that was happening in Donbass, Luhansk and Crimea Russia would respond as it did but Russia is not expansionist like the US. The most surprising part of the recent events is not that Russia responded but that they gave it 8 years of trying to settle the situation peacefully before they responded. Prior to the coup, Ukraine normally democratically elected pro Russian governments because 40% of Ukrainian people are ethnically Russian. Your propaganda tells you that Ukraine is like one country with everyone of one mind but just like most countries it is not. In the south west road signs etc. have always been in Hungarian because that is language that people there speak. Now the law says they will be forced to put up with a language that no one has ever heard before. The people in the north west are ethnically Polish but they are not like Polish people. The people of eastern Ukraine are even told what day to have Christmas on because they are of the Russian Orthodox church which is no longer acceptable. The Nazis that took power in the coup of 2014 knew that they had to kill 1.5 million ethnic Russians in order to have a democratic election return the result they wanted so they set about a genocide. Putin was the one that wanted to give the people elections to decide on the future and the US and UK said no. Putin has consistently been the one that wants the people to decide because he knows what they would decide. Russia did not invade Ukraine, Russia took a side in the civil war in a neighbouring country where a coup had overthrown a democratically elected government and where democracy was not allowed to return (if an elite says who can or cannot stand in the election then that is not democracy and pro Russian parties were being burnt alive simply for being pro Russian). At the time the US had taken a side in the civil war in Somalia which had nothing whatsoever to do with them but we did not care about that. Education has dumbed people down to the extent that we are told this guy is bad and that guy is good and we accept it like we watching a Hollywood movie. In real life all politicians are bad. We could have avoided all of this simply by insisting on an internationally monitored free and fair election instead of bombs. Ukraine has already lost this war and the US has won. Russia has done well and already has 90% of the territory they wanted and they never had any reason to want the entire Ukraine although if we do not stop the killing they will probably take a land bridge to Transnistria which will cut what is left of Ukraine off from the coast which will be very bad for post war Ukraine.

And who exactly is this "we"? Russia wanted peace through conquering and making their enemies surrende and maybe there are people who want the Soviet Union back, so they approve it. And that does not even mean that Russia is inherently bad, it's mostly their boomers who are in power and still thinking in terms of a Soviet Union or the Cold War and violently repressing all opposition, sending their men to war despite the decline in population, changing policies on nuclear warfare, speeding up the production of arms and gathering allies(North Korea) for the current and coming wars. So until there is a regime change, they are enemies to western countries and to any Russian citizens opposed to the war and to Putin. IMHO any block-free states will be taken apart in the future just like Ukraine which only amplifies the importance of alliances like NATO or their counter-part BRICS. If you ever watched interviews with Putin on the topic, he did not even bother to hide that his goal is to restore the borders of the former Soviet Union which basically means a great part of today's EU. So if the EU cannot keep up and ensure a balance of power with or without the US, they will most likely be subject of invasion as insignificant as they may be.

You are based on an EU server so I had assumed that you were from Europe so you and I are we. The actions of the Soviet Union do not make Russia bad any more than the actions of the Nazis make Germany bad. We do not judge Germany by Hitler but you wish to judge Russia by the USSR. Illogical. After we completely needed the USSR in 1941 - 1945 and they saw us as friends we have spat in their faces and held a cold war against them. By doing so we strengthened Stalin in the same way that we are currently strengthening Putin. Only a fool thinks that bullying makes you stronger. We made treaties that we have never kept to yet stamp our feet like toddlers when they reciprocate. What coming wars? Take a look at history, they do not start wars, we do. We are always the war mongers, not Russia. I have seen a few interviews with Putin and have never heard him speak of restoring the Soviet Union or having any wish to. I have heard him say the exact opposite. The reason why BRICS is outstripping our alliances is because it is far more liberal and about trade rather than war. Russia does not in any way "rule" BRICS in the way that the US rules NATO so countries want to join. No bribery required. Canada is now threatened with invasion if they do not do what Trump says. Now you are ruled by the new USSR (the EU) and Russia is free to trade with a much larger market they are doing much better than during that time when they were ruled by the USSR and we had free trade etc. They learnt from us but for some inexplicable reason we became like they had been.