Your nonsense straight out of the a Soviet propaganda book doesn't work on me.
Go ask people from Eastern Europe how they felt about 45/50+ years of Soviet imposed governments and regimes.
The West has done awful things but in what way do they excuse the attempted ethnic cleansing of Ukraine?
You’re probably smart enough to understand that out of spite and regret of your country’s history with the Russians your countrymen have more motivation than many others to judge the Russian efforts without any further investigation into the matter.
The same applies for myself, since I’m Finnish. It’s almost sad to see how people abandon all reason and critical thinking skills because of some ingrained belief that “Russia bad”. All of my knowledge of the human nature leads me to believe that they’re no more bad than the next people, and that they probably have some motives to go to a taxing war that we don’t really understand here in the west - seeing as the first casualty in war is the truth.
That's an extremely dumb take
Then they followed it up with the old hacker news chestnut of 'whatabout the west'
I don’t think it’s a particularly nuanced point to you
What point and why do you keep saying 'nuance' over and over while giving zero actual information? What are you trying to say and what evidence is there?
Let's think about this super hard. What is the justification for an unprovoked genocidal war? Why are you defending putin?
however ignorant it might be.
Show me where you get your information, lets see the source of this nonsense.
2. If you actually want to hear my opinion, then the realm of geopolitics + good old-fashioned hate of the US government does a number on people's logic, so we get what I can only charitably describe as a parade of non-sequiturs, whataboutisms and other fallacies. And so it can be useful to frame it in the simpler terms, for example you could hardly find anyone even on this site who would condone the forced takeover of parts of people's homes. Literally the same is happening on a scale of the countries.
It cuts right through the bullshit and frequently exposes a lot of hypocrisy, hate, self loathing, racism, etc.