"USA is the aggressor. It has no rights over Laos / North Korea / Iran / Iraq / Libya / Afghanistan / Syria and its decisions about its alliances. Those countries are acting in the best interests how it seems possible given their own situation and international (geopolitical) realities."
Why should North Korea or Iran trust the United States?
Why should Taiwan trust China?
This problem isn't unique to Russia but we do nothing about it. Only in Russia case we dial it up to an 11, everywhere else it barely makes headlines, instead we talk about Johnny Depp and Will Smith slapping someone.
It's like if dozens of Black people were being killed every day in the USA, but we only cared about one specific Black person, gave him golden caskets, and made entire parades and even riots destroying Black neighborhoods, in his name. It's not that he deserved it more than the other Black people whose names we don't even know. It's that George Floyd was killed by police on camera, at a time when people were angry at police for lockdowns and protesting was the only way to let loose and go outside in a crowd. It's about the aggressor being the police, not George Floyd being somehow better than all the other Black people who are killed every day. This is the same phenomenon...
It's like if 150 people were killed in Paris and the whole world lit up in French colors, but no one cared about the same size attack in Beirut by ISIS same day: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/16/world/middleeast/beirut-l...
It's like how right now Yemen and Ethiopea have MILLIONS of people in a crisis and we are only talking about Ukraine. It's because the topic is set by our governments and media, and the goal is to isolate Russia and starve it of resources. (But it turns out not to be so easy, because the East and half the world doesn't want to go along with it).
And you can see this because Hillary called for a no-fly zone and closing the sky over Syria... before any Russian invasions or aggressions in Ukraine. USA isn't doing it for love of Ukrainians, the war hawks want to use ANY country to get Russia involved in a quagmire like ViatNam, Afghanistan or Iraq, to weaken it and use it as a reason to totally isolate it from the world. And Russia fell for it. Yes Russian leaders were that stupid, they couldn't match USA's cunning and couldn't get Minsk II done. They are far more inept strategically than USA.