why do we need you if we've turned east and are doing business there?
This is a very commonsensical approach. You have business in the Kaukaz and in Central Asia, much more important, profitable and less risky than trying to conquer Central Europe again. Hopefully your government will be as smart as you are.
Russia was left with no choice.
Look, Lithuanians have been messing with Polish minority all the time, ever since they regained their independence from the Soviet Union. Persecuting our schools, language and other minority rights. We could send our army and roll over the f*cking Samogitia twice, and be back home before supper. Did we do it? No. Because it's 21st century and there are other ways of solving conflicts than starting "Special Military Operations". Wars are costly, people die in them, and in the end nobody really profits.
Tell me honestly, hand on your heart, do you think Russia profited from the entire affair in Ukraine?
how enthusiastically you reacted to the stories about Skripals and Bucha
Still, we wouldn't go to war over that.