Whether you like that answer or not, has no bearing on whether the cartoon-character in your head reflects reality. It clearly doesn't.
Interesting cause the victory article they accidentally posted then quickly deleted didn’t even mention NATO once.
But do you know what it did talk about?, the tragedy of Ukrainian independence and fixing that historical “mistake” of 1991.
That sounds more like imperialism than wanting a buffer state to me.
This is just such a dumb take, even the mafia bosses running the show don't believe that.
Let alone Ukraine not being in NATO at all.
Also I remember the rhetoric being about denazification, so apparently every russian nationalist has a different story they push.