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>As opposed to, I dunno, an obvious collective response to a nation doing something incontrovertibly wrong?

Can you explain how this is incontrovertibly different than other foreign war entanglements from the past few decades?

What was the last war that had such an overwhelming and unanimous international response?

That is question-begging of the first order, and also circular logic. "A unanimous response is not fishy, because it is incontrovertibly wrong; it is incontrovertibly wrong because the response is unanimous."

Very odd reply.

Not really. It is hard to get disparate nations to agree on anything, unless you suspect there is a secret, central party coordinating the response. Consensus of this unusual sort gives credence to the claims.

When was the last time a sovereign, democratic, western nation invaded?

You have to squint pretty hard to call Ukraine a western nation.

Is it the "western nation" part that makes this different?

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