Just like we have done to many countries over the last 40 years.
Sure, go ahead and list the countries the US invaded and SEIZED in the last 40 years.
US trying to bring democracy to Afghanistan is not the same as Russia seizing Crimea and ending all freedom. See the difference?
“ Sure, go ahead and list the countries the US invaded and SEIZED in the last 40 years.” OK, let’s go back just 150 years. How did we get much of southwest America and Southern California? And we killed thousands in Afghanistan and accomplished.