The Russians think they are "smart", and really believe in communism.  If others try to help Russia, they bite the hand that helps them claiming the help to be conspiracy to destroy them.  In short they are like cockroaches mentally ill.  The problem is with Communism it is all or nothing - and Ukraine does not want that and really neither do most Russian citizens.  See  "5 Questions for Stephen Kotkin"  at  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul1gsIdlJFs however as this has gone on for so long with Russia being a planet Earth problem, one would ask what is wrong with the Russians??  For the best recent analysis of June 2022 see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a7CDKqWcZ0&pp=QAFIBA%3D%3D of Stephen Kotkin: Putin, Stalin, Hitler, Zelenskyy, and War in Ukraine | Lex Fridman Podcast #289 - YouTube and watch Jack Barsky ex KGB spy now reformed as an American explain the Russian mindset is persistent paranoia.  In other words they are all bat shit crazy thinking they are right. They think the the whole world is out to get them. All the professional Russian people are leaving the country because the crazies are in charge and are stealing all the National funds. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSVLjAdo8UA&pp=QAFIAg%3D%3D   It will take some time, but the world will likely ostracize Russia again for a good long time as they get rid of a reliance on fossil fuels forever, and how smart was that ??  Mr. Putin is actually a 70 year old man who has lost relevance and he knows it internally.

Since the 1991 Soviet Union collapse approximately at least 14 million of Russian citizens who were the National  intellectual people have left.  Many did go to Ukraine for freedom.  See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCkkjnpS2f8&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D and https://www.europeantimes.news/2022/05/how-many-people-left-russia-becau... Since the war started with Ukraine 50 to 70 million Information Technology professionals have left.  The smart people in Russia are smart enough to leave the others behind.  The saying goes - "How can soar like an eagle with you are surrounded by turkeys".  Most people see Russians "culturally" as liars because this is what lower intellect tends to produce.  Mr. Putin claims all is well in Russia, but is it really - no is the clear answer.  See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKSz5O417zE&pp=QAFIAw%3D%3D

The real and genetic answer is found in the Roman Empire driving the Neanderthals East and North into the region we know today as Russia where there interbred with the "Rus" peoples, a similarly dim-witted warring people driven there by the Scandinavian peoples..  At that time Russia was largely a frozen Tundra no one really wanted for any reason - it had no value.  Enter current times - where now we know those lands have huge amounts of fossil fuel deposits.

Roman spread pictorially and with country names

Mr. Putin compares himself to "Peter the Great" both of which appear to suffer from Microcephaly small head syndrome and dim-wittedness.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcephaly as there is a saying, "better to say nothing and leave people wondering how smart you are than to open your mouth or act - and remove all doubt."  Mr. Putin has now removed all doubt how dumb he is.   Russians in general are incompetent and the world knows and has seen this - Chernobyl - blew up and they could not fix it until an International team of scientists and engineers came in rolled a fix dome over it. finished in 2019.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement  They built huge amounts of Nuclear military vessels mainly submarines - and they just let them sit rotting leaking radiation until again an international teams has come in to address the problem.  See "How The Russian Navy Disposed Of 100 Nuclear Submarines | The End Of Red October | Timeline " at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZIReklSaL4 and it is not "pretty".  Then there is the idiocy of occupying Chernobyl at the beginning of the Ukraine invasion making every soldier sick.  The Ukrainians said fine - hangout there - you won't be there for long, and they weren't.  Most of the world is intellectually thinking about the possibility of the world heading to a mass extinction event of mankind ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jsj7K6E0Fg ) while Mr. Putin is focused on stealing land Russia actually ceded to Ukraine to be its own couyntry so he has a South access  to the oceans again.  Wonder if he would like to take back Alaska also ??  That is Neanderthal short sighted thinking who does not want to get along with the rest of the world - the same reason the Romans had to fight them off into North Eastern areas of Europe.

The modern tell-tale sign of Neanderthal DNA is a slanted forehead and a brow ridge over the eyes. For women it is sometimes just an unusually short forehead, and a small head likewise.  these are genetic traits - undeniable, but what it does is makes a creature that lacks imagination to innovate, copies what they can, but argues and fights over almost everything.  You say I know a lot of people with slanted foreheads - yes - and that is the point - but you see them in largely ONLY Caucasian peoples - as they would not breed with people of color.  Still won't to this day, but more important;ly woman of color do not find that slant forehead attractive to mate with either that slant in the forehead,  and that is why Neanderthal DNA is mostly in Caucasian skinned people.  African American people especially have been spared, because of Racism and Slavery, Caucasians largely would not breed with them.  As a consequence most African Americans and especially the female have a large cranial area and vertical forehead.  See https://www.newsweek.com/neanderthal-dna-makes-people-more-aggressive-677733#:~:text=The%20results%2C%20published%20in%20Human,They%20were%20also%20less%20imaginative.  Modern anatomical man was bred to be intelligent and docile, but interbreeding with Neanderthals made then able to be warring and murderous.

Neanderthal skull left, modern human skull right

These kinds of creatures are those who want to be in charge, and they are always found throughout history.  Gaddafi, Amein, Napoleon, Hussein - and the list goes on.  See for one " Colonel Gaddafi: Terror Of The Middle East | Evolution Of Evil | Timeline"  at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTAkE0DT_M and one can look at "most" people of science and orderly government and find a modern anotomical human large vrtical forehead.

To best understand why humans are in perpetual conflict one needs to understand how humans have populated the Earth and intelligence lies shown by electricity presence and usage from space.  See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki-hoy-3ea8&pp=QAFIAg%3D%3D

All brains are not created the same among humanoids.  Just as it true among canines vs the Wolf versus the Domesticated dog. See "Dog Tales" a PBS documentary on genetics of the dog.  at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/dog-tales/

Recently as of August 2022 China has begun to act out like a spoiled child because Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan for 20 hours.  Why the Chinese would risk destroying their ec and world presence over Taiwan because they want to get their hands Nationally on that electronics and chip manufacturer industry roots itself in their Denoisan DNA.  While the Russian DNA is largely  Neanderthal, Chinese DNA  and of the region is Denovisan.  The Denovisan were smarter but still hampered by tribalism to conquer one another..  WION - Gravitas did a four part series called "Inside Xi's China" which chronicles the history of the region. See Part 1, at   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvu65mM6aTE&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D and part 2 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKmbaDl2Bw&pp=QAFIAg%3D%3D  and part 3 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YilpbTfUC0A and part 4 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yRNo6h0OLo and Denisovan information is found through a Google search such as https://www.google.com/search?q=denisovan++Chinese+genes&client=firefox-... and here is a historical summary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7MDn4etRuM and here and a full news feature broadcast August 5, 2022 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyJKpnFMpaI&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORFNjCHFD3g&pp=QAFIAg%3D%3D

Denisovans are not modern anatomical humans either, while smarter than Neanderthals they too suffer from an inability to be creative and forward thinking, but copy others and claim they originated it  They suffer from looking backwards and then repeat mistakes to destroy the future. .  For instance the reckless and feckless Chinese space program and copy cat nature of it military arsenal is an example. 

The point is unfortunately the way they think is largely engrained in their genes.  See for instance https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49579810 where 

Scientists have found the first genetic instructions hardwired into human DNA that are linked to being left-handed.

The instructions also seem to be heavily involved in the structure and function of the brain - particularly the parts involved in language.

Neanderthals were described as "Beasts" and Heathens by the Romans.  There are referred to as "smart apes" by many of todays anthropologists, and it is because they tend to be thieves and feel there is nothing wrong with that.  More likely is they cannot figure it out on their own.

We like to joke about people behaving like cavemen. But it turns out that old chestnut has some truth to it. A new study reports that residual Neanderthal DNA in the human genome may make some modern humans insufferable.

The researchers, from the State University of New York at New Paltz and other institutions, relied on something called the Neanderthal quotient, the percentage of DNA that overlaps with Neanderthal DNA. The team compared the Neanderthal quotients of 200 volunteers with their results on several psychological surveys. The results, published in Human Ethology Bulletin, showed that participants with a higher percentage of Neanderthal DNA were more likely to experience social fear, promiscuity, depressive tendencies, bipolar tendencies, and autistic tendencies. They were also less imaginative.  See https://www.newsweek.com/neanderthal-dna-makes-people-more-aggressive-67....

The land we call Russia is exactly where the "pureer bred" Neanderthals were driven to and has a large Neanderthals DNA presence.  The interbreeding with them did not help the human race, but woman for some reason wanted a large man, and it helped if he was dumb enough for her to control. This is why the Prussians are large, brutal, and shameless.  It is in their genes.

They had little power and could be ignored until fossil fuels were discovered on the lands of which they live.  Now they want to hold th world hostage.

See these videos.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw1fiXc6Qs0&pp=QAFICA%3D%3D and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupS-d_cAtk&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo6w5R6Uo8Y&pp=QAFIAg%3D%3D  and for history of Eur-Asia and Russia from 2018  see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fgDu57N-Qw&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D so the point is - Putin believes he and Communism is the only path to how the world should live.  See ESPECIALLY the last one even though it is from 2018.

Mr. Biden and NATO had better realize very soon how they MUST finish this job, as Putin will never stop, and neither will Xi Jenping of China.  When you get Cockroaches in your home  Ukraine should apply to NATO to sanction neutron weapons to be used INSIDE Ukraine only to exterminate the infestation and see if it is dumb enough to try to come back.   Harmless, the neutron  half-life is only 15 minutes.  They could be given the last warning to leave before launching just like the Japanese were warned in 1945.  The question is if Russia is dumb enough to use Conventional Thermo Nuclear warheads and drift the fallout right over their own land and people.   Then destroy Russia's government and regime and install a democracy, or never deal with them again for anything ever.   This is already World War three - because the world made the mistake of letting these civilizations become wealthy Nuclear powers.  See "What happens if Russia cuts off gas supplies to Europe? | DW Business Special" at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPn17FWsJ4o as the saying goes - enough is enough from an idiot.  Never argue with a fool as listens cannot tell which is which.  Putin has destroyed Russia and he does not get it.