“Ya, so what? Something is either illegal, or not.”
Try to wrap your mind around the fact that there is no controlling legal authority in the international arena. They are sovereign nations which means they can do pretty much anything they can get away with. The west (like NATO bombing the Serbs) have done these types of things all the time but because they won it’s alright. If they ever lose then the victor will declare what they did “illegal” and punish them, if they can. Kind of like the old middle ages concept of “might makes right”. It is what it is so don’t get all prissy about “illegal” things nations are doing as there really is no such thing and never has been.
So you appeared on this thread, not to “defend” the Russians, but to state the obvious. Thanks.
Try to wrap yourself around Al Gore with your “no controlling legal authority” rodomontade rhetoric and sophistries. Ukraine has done nothing to Russia. Noriega, Gaddaffi, Saddam, and whatever other vile despots you equate to the peaceful people in Ukraine who only wish to be free do not deserve Putin’s undeclared but cruel war. You’re just his lowbrow apologist.