What could have gone wrong? Same stuff as with most nations. Greed, and allowance of other countries to influence them.
The world picture is not Russia and Ukraine fighting each other. It's the West attempting to use Ukraine to conquer Russia. And it just so happens that the form of government Ukraine has makes it rather easy for the West to infiltrate them to do this. So the West encourages this kind of government.
One can see where the problem exists. Zelensky constantly calls for peace, and then he turns around and attacks rather than proving out his wish for peace by laying down arms, or at least backing off. If he had made these peace moves before the end of 2022, Russia would have stopped with the Black Sea Corridor, and the war would have been over before it really started.
But the thing that the West was doing through Ukraine started a long time ago... the latest segment of it starting in 2014. The appearance of Russian aggression was really a form of defense that Russia finally had to put into effect to keep from being gradually overrun by the West through Ukraine.
People of the West say that what I am saying is simply Russian propaganda. But they don't realize that all the talk they have heard is western propaganda that has been going on, really, since the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, and reached its peak at the time of paranoid Stalin.
But was Stalin really paranoid? The arms and fingers of the West were trying to assassinate him way back then, using him as an excuse for their secret attempts to steal Russian lands from Russia, and maybe dissolve the whole country of Russia.
The important thing to understand is that the separation of the peoples of Russia and Ukraine is being pushed into place by the greedy people of the West in their relentless attempts to weaken both lands enough to conquer them both. So far it is working to conquer Ukraine by using Russia to do it. But Russia understands this, and will ultimately nuke/destroy the West if the West continues.
