“Gangs take over. Vendettas get settled. Civilians are prey. The massacre in Bucha could be Russian war crimes or it could be some other agenda playing out. Or a mixture of several. There’s no way for us to know at our distant remove. The locals might not even be certain.”
So very true.
Yet, the one thing we CAN be sure of is that Putin invaded a sovereign nation.
Without that invasion, none of the subsequent things happen to question and argue about.