NATO has constantly raised the threshold of provocations against Russia, first by executing a coup in 2014, then by abolishing the rights of the Russian-speaking part of the population, then killing that part of the population instead of implementing the Minsk agreements,

Few average citizens, regardless where they reside outside of Donbass have absolutely no knowledge of the atrocities committed against those people, in great part, by there own 'so-called' government.

You, and the few like you living afar from that hellish environment know, because of your caring interest. In your particular case @lighteye, I suspect that you've had first hand experience suffering under similar type outside interference during the early 1990's to mid nineties -- for instance.

It almost seems ancient to us here in the West, at this point. Even those of us who somewhat knew and followed what was happening there at that time, have a tendency to have forgotten places like Serbia, Bosnia, Herzogovina, Kosovo... etc.

For these reasons, I place a bit more value upon your assessment of what may be truly going on (behind the scene) in Ukraine, these days, rather than opinions by clue-less, arm-chair observers.