Russia really isn't much of a power anymore. I wouldn't want to fight them in the Ukraine with conventional arms as those Russians really do know how to die. They'd lose 1/2 million kids a week sometimes during the Second War.
And they never looked back. You don't want to fight an enemy like that. But they aren't very well off financially.
So I imagine all the noise that Putin is making doesn't go very deep. One day somebody will shoot him... then then maybe they'll get somebody who actually knows how to run a country. Russia needs to be in the family of nations finally - just like they were a real country.
And they need to back the hell out of the Ukraine and stop killing people there.
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.