The reason Putin cares is because NATO is threatening national security of Russia. If Ukraine joined NATO, then nukes could be put there that would reach Moscow in five minutes. This is a red line, just like USSR putting nukes in Cuba was a red line for US. What’s happening in Ukraine would be equivalent to Russia overthrowing the government in Mexico, then installing a puppet government that would ask to join CSTO so that Russia could put nukes in US border. Try and use that tiny brain of yours to imagine how US would react to that.
Nazism is an ideology that’s alive and well and US has proactively nurtured fascism in Europe.
The reason Putin cares is because NATO is threatening national security of Russia. If Ukraine joined NATO, then nukes could be put there that would reach Moscow in five minutes. This is a red line, just like USSR putting nukes in Cuba was a red line for US. What’s happening in Ukraine would be equivalent to Russia overthrowing the government in Mexico, then installing a puppet government that would ask to join CSTO so that Russia could put nukes in US border. Try and use that tiny brain of yours to imagine how US would react to that.