You haven’t figured out that NeoSoviet Russia is still a threat to its own people and to the West. Today’s Russia has a dictator holding onto power and pushing through his third decade as leader. Russia still murders its political dissidents and its opposition leaders. Russia still moves populations of people around, still uses human wave military tactics, and invades its neighbors. It allies itself with terrorist groups like Hamas, and terrorist countries like North Korea and Iran. It produces a hazed military that commits war crimes as a matter of policy.
And you still haven’t figured out that the Western Alliance is a military paper tiger, a de-industrialized mess, with a fagified, tranzzed, pozzed and geriatric “leadership” that is incapable of doing anything real.
You lot are going to drag all of NATO into another of your overseas failed wars.
The countries of the West are not capable of doing anything significant in Ukraine.
They can’t secure their own borders, build minimal amounts of artillery ammunition, or even reliably operate their electrical grid or natural gas systems.
If Putin is half of what you say he is, the clown-world “leaders” of the West need to connect with the reality of their reduced status, and stop trying ot be the world’s hall monitors.
Both sides suck. The Ukrainians have done a lot of that and more.
They banned all opposition parties.
Imprisoned opposition leaders.
Stopped all elections, indefinitely.
Engaged in ethnic cleansing, (per local Uke police chief)
Shelled civilian targets in breakaway provinces. (Eight years)
Voted to remove human rights for Russian-Ukrainians
Shot prisoners of war
Seized control of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine
Put their own government appointed people in charge of the U. O. Church.
Arrested and imprisoned dissenting priests and nuns.
Possibly, engaged in very limited chemical warfare.
Harbored Western biological warfare labs, with alleged virus “leaks”.
Violated the Minsk Peace Agreement
The bigger question is why you support either government.