Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Sure, in as large a country as Ukraine, a lot of it will have been at least physically untouched by the war..you will be able travel over vast distances without seeing any war destruction. So easy to see why articles can appear claiming that its not a real war, which is the angle they are pushing. The truth of course, is far different. Its an ugly destructive war, and caused by one man, and one man only, Vladimir Putin.

Substation turned off the grid in Belgorod, due to power overload, - according to authorities

The same Donald that told them they were too reliant on Russian energy, and I am pretty sure this war would not have started with him as president.

Why wouldn't anyone, with a shred of common sense, be concerned about pouring billions of western arms into a region that was well known to have some of the highest levels of corruption and organized crime in the world? It's very easy for people to forget these things about Ukraine now, because the focus has shifted almost entirely onto Russia. But Trump was well aware of this at that point in time.

Also, the Russians had no intention of waiting for security guarantees from the west. The historical distrust, meant that they couldn't actually rely on empty words or promises. Trump seemed aware of this too, which is why he saw western weapons pouring into Ukraine as an overt sign to the Russians that Ukraine was effectively becoming a de-facto NATO-armed state.

We can dispute this line of logic all we want, but that's certainly how the Russians viewed it and Trump knew it. Now, you can criticise Trump for almost entirely putting US interests first in this respect, but the reality is that this policy might very well have avoided the scale of conflict we're witnessing today.

And we have guys like Stoltenberg even coming out recently and letting the mask slip with regards to NATO's strategic position on this conflict. What are the Russians supposed to think now? From their perspective, their worst suspicions are being shown to be true. This emboldens them in the belief that they were correct to act preemptively. Western cries of "unprovoked attack" are met with levels of scepticism in Russia (and elsewhere), that are not entirely unjustified.

Sad state of affairs really

Because Trump wanted to put America first, not some country thousands of miles from there border.

The Democratic party are the biggest danger to world peace and greatest threat to mankind , they are even openly admitting to using Ukraine as a proxy to fight Russia. They will bleed every last Ukranian if they could just to weaken the Russians.

https://twitter.com/historyoarmani2/status/1582461658957746179?t=khEJKPCaP46deH8WHcqVaQ&s=19

When the thinking is misguided by russian money its treason, it is harsh because consequences are harsh. Schroeder is or was employed by Gazprom so he's not even hiding it.

Threads is better.

If Mexico had a far right militia on the border with the U.S and were murdering American citizens would the U.S just sit back and let it happen, and just to clarify I am in no way justifying Putin's actions nor his illegal annexation of western Ukraine, I am just highlighting the causes of this war which has been going on the last decade.