Here we have a country that without provocation attacks another and decides that they want to colonize this country in year 2022. everyone and their mother tries to reason with the aggressor but then folks like you have to blame Americans and West. You do not blame your fellow communist Tankie Vladimir Putin
Russia won't colonize Ukraine. That's the American way: occupying other countries for decades. Russia will make sure NATO is off the table for Ukraine as it did in Georgia in 2008. There's been peace and good relations with Georgia since 2008, because it was presided over by Obama in the next 5 years, who was very careful about his relationship with Russia.
Secondly, it's very simplistic to claim this act is without provocation. There are at least two important factors that have precipitated it.
One is the oppression of Ethnic Russians within Ukraine by fascists who associate Russia with Jews. It was made worse by the second and even more important factor (due to the potential danger to precipitate nuclear war) which is the American determination to make Ukraine a NATO state.
NATO has rules about not allowing countries that are not internally unified to join. This made Ukraine plan to attack and reintegrate by force the two quasi-independent areas populated by ethnic Russians using their Neo-nazi groups. This is the reason the Western Leftists I've been following were supportive of Russia's first move to enter Ukraine as a peace-keeping force, precisely to protect these two places from what was threatening to be crimes against humanity against ethnic Russians. They have criticized Putin SEVERELY only after extending this beyond those two areas and going after Ukraine proper. They do this while acknowledging this whole thing has been caused by the US and NATO and was EASILY avoidable. I mirror their views.
Ukraine and Georgia in NATO for Russia means missile bases right at the border. It gives Americans a first-strike advantage against Russia, which means they can easily be invaded and not be able to deter an attack even via MAD. In addition, any small disputes with neighbours immediately involve the US. Imagine a scenario in which Mexico was making loud plans to enter a pact with China or Russia that would allow them to set up missiles pointing directly at American cities, right at the Southern border! Do you think Washington would allow that in a million years? Do you think they'd care about "the sovereignty of Mexico" in that scenario? It's something like that in Ukraine: So it's simply not accurate to say it's without provocation. There's a very big provocation: the literal threat of invasion and likelihood of their country falling apart.
The Americans kept pushing, reversing Obama's carful policy, because their toxic internal politics literally made up a transparent bs conspiracy about Putin magically making Trump beat Hilary in 2016. This internal environment has made it impossible to have normal diplomatic relations with Russia in the past 5 years. Basically, Trump is the reason for the US beligerance towards both Russia and China.
Like mankind says, war is always the worst thing. Only nuclear war or a straight genocide can be worse. So no one in their right mind thinks war in Ukraine is a great thing. Where we differ is how we're assigning blame, which them leads to differences in how/where we "see" the solution to the current crisis.
Some want to say that because Putin has responded with this invasion, it's all his fault alone and pointing out reasons and context is 'whataboutism'. I say this is both black and white thinking coupled with magical thinking. Wars don't miraculously fall out of the sky, rafiki.
Anyone interested in peace without caring about reasons for war is just momentarily indulging their own self-righteousness.
