That is precisely what I don’t understand in the current debate: those that side whole-heartily with Ukraine seem to completely ignore the Russian side of the conflict. They don’t understand Russia’s motivation, so they think that Russia is simply acting irrationally. Russia is not acting irrationally, they are acting precisely how a rational world or regional power would act when pressed.
As I’ve said before, we chose this fight when we overthrew the legitimately-elected government of Ukraine back in 2014. We wanted this, we thought we could win this. Perhaps we can, but right now I don’t see the powers that being up to challenge.
I think it is painful to come to the realization that your government (and media) have been lying to you about almost everything. But, anyone who comes to this subject with an objective mind quickly finds out how misled we have been.
Russia is not the bad guy...WE ARE!
We are responsible for this unnecessary war and we are going to reap the whirlwind from it...:-(