This is just elevated whataboutism
The condition of the Ukrainian state is literally the crux of the entire conflict since 2014, what are you on about?
and that Ukraines’s democracy has been subverted by USA, that doesn’t make a military invasion and armed occupancy a righteous or even justifiable act.
It does when that subverted state begins to suppress ethnic minorities and political opposition, your argument rests on willful ignorance of the conflict and the Ukrainian state’s actions in Donbass and the genocidal threats it regularly issues to Crimeans who DO NOT AND HAVE NEVER considered themselves Ukrainian
Sorry bud, but intervening in a vicious civil war brought about by the violent overthrow of an actual democratically elected government, is not the same thing as unprovoked aggression for the sake of land grabs as claimed by historically brain-dead liberals
Why doesn’t Putin just say that? Why would he insist on mislabelling this as an “SMO” instead of a war of liberation?
SMO is just a technical political title for the operation, Putin’s rhetoric concerning Crimea and the separatist states has been quite clearly centered on unification, independence referendums and international recognition for their secession from Ukraine
Are you asserting in the whole two years of this war Putin has never mentioned the separatist republics???
