Beating a dead horse.
This is akin the the Alabama-Auburn debate here in Alabama.
Even though you agree both sides were, as you put it, “immoral”, you will always side with the South.
I see both sides as not having clean hands, which is often the case in war. I’m not trying to demonize one side to make a point.
It is pointless to do so, as this whole conversation shows. And to imprint this narrative on the current Russian invasion is counter-productive.
I’m done; You can (and will) continue to beat this horse.
I will side with the side that wants independence. Today that is Ukraine. Previously it was Israel, India, the Philippines, Cuba, and before that the American South.
I don't try to approve or disapprove of their reasons. My thinking is that if they want to be independent, they have a right to be so.