why are you invading ukraine

I'm from a Western country, and I even have a specific connection to Ukraine and I'm absolutely in favor of Ukrainian nationalism. However, at this point, what should be expected from Russian people on a platform like this? If they make any serious attempt to explain their view on this topic, they get called a "bot", "Putin Troll" or "brainwashed". Literally zero reason to engage with this shit.

And let's be clear, even the actual trolls on this side of the debate are usually closer to the truth than the view honestly held by most people from Western countries. We're using an arbitrary border drawn by Kruschev to justify continuing a proxy war that the Obama administration deliberately triggered by proliferating military build up around Russia's borders. The western position on this issue is indefensible.

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