The problem with Putin and his fraction was that they intended to perpetuate the old Soviet mythology about WWII.
Ukrainians have their own national identity, they have their own national heroes that fought for the independence of their country during WWII.
It is obvious that they would have collaborated with anybody who fought against the communists, because about 7 Million Ukrainians were killed during the Holodomor by Bolshevik thugs.
It is stupid to call the Ukrainian national heroes "Nazis" and "Anti-Semites", that is old and you will not get any support among the ukrainian people if you chose this tactic.
But that was precisely what Putin and his fraction in the Ukraine did, but this only antagonised the Ukrainians.
Yes, the Crimea Peninsula is part of Russia, and there are a lot of Russian speakers in East Ukraine. Many of them were moved to Ukraine after the Holodomor, to replace the killed Ukrainians.
I think that Kremlin will be happy with the split of Ukraine into two parts, and the re-unification of Crimea with Russia.
But the ruling American elite needs the Crimean Peninsula for another military base.
They do not need Ukraine without the Crimean Peninsula, and the Kremlin will not give away Crimean Peninsula, because it is Part of Russia.
That means that the conflict is only beginning.
I guess that the West will try a coup against Putin, too. They will create an "Orange Revolution" in Russia, too.
I can imagine that there will be barricades on the Red Square in a couple of month, and Putin will have to flee to North Korea.
Putin has done a lot of good things to Russian people, he is a clever man. But is adversaries are even more clever, and they use diabolic tactics that Putin cannot even dream about. He believes that if he calls the opposition in the Ukraine "Nazis" and "Anti-Semites", then he can kind of reach an agreement with western powers, that the opposition is not "kosher" and shall not be supported.
But that is not the way western elite conquers the world!
Today Ukrainian allies of the West may become enemies in a couple of years and sued in Den Haag, but today the West will support "them Nazis" and "them Anti-Semites" to get Putin out of power who is the main obstacle to the agenda of globalists.