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Did Russia just wake up one day and decide to invade? Did the largest country on Earth for some reason decided it would start a costly war just to grab a little more land?
Why do you think Russia invaded?
I think putins Russia has a well documented cause for a Soviet reunification. invading is the correct term. unwanted military action from a neighboring country to take it over is aggressive no matter how you want to mentally mangle it. it's not just invading, it is conquering to reform. the nazi propaganda you swallowed is bitter. you can "like" it if you want but you can't deny it.
Putin is a bourgeois nationalist. He has no desire to bring back the soviet union, or even the ability as Russia is not currently experiencing revolutionary conditions.
The initial war aims were more reserved and the march-April 2022 talks showed that Russia was fine with Ukraine remaining independent (though this may have partially been because the war had turned out to be more costly than imagined). However, "conquering to reform" I suppose is an adequate description of the current war aims.
Most of the Nazis are on the western side of the war, as they have pretty much always been throughout the past 2-4 centuries of western led genocide and slavery against the rest of humanity.
Do you think Russians in Ukraine have a right to self determination? How is Russia supporting Russian self-determination in Ukraine any different than the US supporting the Kurds at the expense of Iraq and Syria?