Putin is not only interested in eastern ukraine. The people of eastern ukraine are ethnic russians and they don,t wan,t to be a part of a country which is being ruled by a Neo-Nazi and fascist regime,putin won,t interfere as long as the nazis sitting in Kiev won,t send ukrainian military to smash the protests and commit atrocities against russians,if they do this then putin is likely to send Russian army in and annex eastern ukraine like crimea and no one will be able to do anything about it.
Perhaps he is like the West secret "boring" weapon. The enemy goes out of its mind with tedium listening to him.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.