A major superpower decided to invade a sovereign country with absolutely no provocation with the goal of extending their borders. This isn't the first time this has happened, and it won't be the last. It shouldn't be allowed.
Let's be clear here as well. Russia is not the only country to have done this. Western countries have been just as guilty in the past.
This is false. NATO in 2008 invited Ukraine to join. This is the equivalent of Cuba inviting Russia to setup a military base on US borders. The US's reaction was to economically nuke Cuba.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm
Ok, there was the Bay of Pigs, but the US pulled out support at the last minute. Had they invaded Cuba we'd be using that as an example of where the US did the wrong thing by invading a sovereign country (there are other examples...FYI, I'm not American).
As I commented elsewhere, this is a 14 year old invitation.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8942780/
We didn't take up arms, we just starved Cuba to death and didn't give them access to modern medicine.
The document you linked clearly states that the US now recognizes this was a mistake.
"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States has informed the US Government that such activities violate international law and has requested that the US take immediate steps to exempt food and medicine from the embargo."
But your initial comment was if Ukraine provoked Russia, so you're going down a rabbit hole of history that has no bearing on this.
That's conspicuously not what happened with Ukraine. It could not be more not what happened with Ukraine.
Cuba makes no sense as an argument about current events, and if it did, one could have a conversation without random whatabouts.
I don't see the difference.
You don't see a difference in what caused the crisis, right, sure.
THEN what happened?
In both cases, there was precedent for violating sovereignty. Bay of Pigs with the US, and Crimea with Russia, among other things.
But the US agreed to not invade again, and Russia on the other hand...invaded.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/official_texts_8443.htm
This is on NATO's website from 2008 meeting. How is "welcomes" not be interpreted as an invitation?
Well, after those countries became NATO countries their own militaries were NATO militaries, so of course NATO has a permanent military presence in those countries. Unless they totally demilitarised.
The USSR put missiles in Cuba, and got the US to agree not to invade and to withdraw missiles from eastern Europe.
We need to know about the parallel universe where the "NATO aggression" results in Russia agreeing not to invade Ukraine.
Did the separatist movements start because of Russian agitation, or because of actions the government of Ukraine took? Is Ukraine targeting ethnic Russians in the Donbass region, or are they just attacking separatists, who maybe(?) happen to mostly be ethnic Russians? I'm having a hard time understanding the true history here.