Nice try but they were speaking in 2017 about supporting Ukraine in expelling Russia from the territory it had occupied since 2014. Oh, the horror! This war was started by Russia in 2014, not 2022. But I guess in your mind Russia should be able to seize any territory it wants and no one should respond or do anything about it. That, I guess, would be “poking the bear.”
Yes, it is nothing to do with me or my nation. Believe what you will, but these cousins have been involved with each other for a thousand years.
I don't want my tax dollars wasted on this petty dispute, especially when we have out Military Industrial Complex feeding our corrupt politicians, raking in the lucre while cannon fodder on the ground are dying every day.
I've posted here before that my next door neighbors for decades were Russian Refuseniks who were finally able to leave the USSR before the Soviets gave up the ghost. They were both from Moscow, he had been a slipstick engineer in a Soviet Design Bureau calculating stress forces on helicopter rotors, and she had grown up on a collective farm outside of Moscow. They were proud Russians, proud to be finally free and became proud naturalized Americans.
It's a funny thing, a few days after the SMO she was outside in her front yard gushing about what was happening in Ukraine. She said she was Ukrainian and was ecstatic the The President of Ukraine was Jewish.
For three decades she was Russian and suddenly she was Ukrainian. Her only relative is still in Russia and lives in Moscow. No relatives live in Ukraine.
This all reminds me of our War Between The States.