Russia is not the USSR, Ukraine is not part of an aligned block (however forced) but a separate country.
Stop making the equivalent excuse of “she was wearing skimpy clothes and provoking me”, a rapist is a rapist and a war criminal is a war criminal.
https://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-russia-cable-2014-...
Not to justify the invasion, but the concerns were known back in 2008.
In a “well, I understand, Jeff actually owned my ass” and I’m not an autonomous person but his property because my dad was his dads indentured servant once” kind of way understandable. Oh and you gave him your shotgun 20 years back because he promised security guarantees but since then already invaded and annexed your patio and constantly kept making threats.
The same way of understanding that people extended for Hitlers need for Lebensraum. He was literally forced to invade Poland, right?
It’s understandable to fascists rejecting the rule of law and craving rule of the strongest because they think they’d win in that scenario.
if you can see this, why would you not see the american actions as "understandable"