Fine, I say lets blame the sun.
That being said, while there may be many factors involved leading up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's still Russia invading Ukraine.
A bobcat is cornered by a man with a stick, the bobcat lashes out, you blame the bobcat.
You walk around a corner to see a kid hit another kid. You blame the one who did the hitting because you don't care to investigate what was happening before you rounded the corner.
There are decades of history that influence and have led up to this moment. The fact that you didn't mention NATO or the US/EU at tall is telling.
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From what I've read, the 1999 OSCE agreements say that there is an "inherent right of each state to be free to choose or change its security arrangements and alliances" and Russia signed those. Is that wrong?[0]
Because if it's just chasing past glory, no, that's a very bad reason and should be given no more respect than the US invasions in the Middle East in the early 2000s.
[0] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_106788.htm%3Fsel...
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Do you know that Zelenskyy had a sub-28% approval rating from his own population because he threatened to acquire nuclear weapons, threatened to join NATO, join the EU (comes with military connections also, BTW), take back Crimea and the entirety of the Donbas, etc.? His population mostly wanted Austria-style neutrality but he was being strung along by the US because we wanted to turn it into a battering ram against Russia.
Did they invade Ukraine?
Russians were slaughtering Ukrainians before the world knew of the North American continent.
The brutal murders of Jews and Poles occurred during the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648–1657 in present-day Ukraine.[22] Modern historians give estimates of the scale of the murders by Khmelnytsky's Cossacks ranging between 40,000 and 100,000 men, women and children,[23][24] or perhaps many more.[25]
I'm still waiting for the source suggesting that ukranian and russians has been fighting for nearly 1000 years. That's what you wrote.
How it is relevant? Your claim was "Ukranians and Russians has been fighting for over 1000 years"
They brought freedom and democracy to the Ukranian people. It is axiomatic.
Seriously, how can this be down voted or disputed? Reality might be hard to accept but this is ridiculous....