Words have whatever meaning we give them.
We don’t need to annex someone to pump the oil out of their ground under our terms and conditions as in Libya, Syria, Iraq.
No one believes in your Disney fairy-tale:
https://jacobin.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/26/ukraine.usa
I think I provided you this link before. It’s a good “comprehensive” view that backs it all up: https://qr.ae/ps3bYZ
But you don’t need to read. Just waive your flags and say things like “democracy, sovereignty, human rights.”
Idiocracy has become a documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Said the Red Queen.
BroJoeK already shot that Kaylee Smith Quora essay to ribbons, so I didn’t bother.
Jacobin? Really? An extreme leftist weblog?
And a Guardian article from 10 years before the Maidan uprising?
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9476/CBP-9476.pdf
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26248275
https://static.poder360.com.br/2022/02/2014-Coup-1.pdf
YOU try reading something for a change.