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"All you people are saying is that the rape victim is guilty of being near a rapist."

Where I said that? You full of anger, which is understandable, but I am against any war, but I also against lobbysm and such peacuful, but still hostile takeovers and manipulations.

"UKRAINE IS NOT RUSSIA!"

I also never said Ukraine should be part of Russia. Borders of Ukraine should be restored but Ukraine also should restore the human rights of minorities, else there will be never peace. Ukraine quite bad with that, as i heard from ruthenian and hungarian minority friends from SubCarpathia.

Funny part is that this unwarranted act of aggression is making it much more likely that there will soon be nukes in the Baltic countries and even Finland and Sweden joining NATO if it gets much worse.

And NATO already borders Russia and doesn't have nukes or significant armies in the Baltics either for example

I'm not sure if the emphasis is on not owning nukes, or not having them in the region, but intercontinental ballistic missiles exist for decades at this point. It really doesn't matter where the nukes are on the scale of Europe, even on global scale. For example UK has nukes and the ICBMs with 12000 km range capability. No place is safe from nukes, their location doesn't even worth discussing because of the enormous range + submarines.

From Kremlin, where else?

russian propaganda stands on "nato systematically weaponizes russian neighbour countries, thus nato's expanding towards russian borders". so in their logic, nato provoked putin to destroy ukrainian forces to avoid a bigger conflict on russian territories. brainwashed people come up with these oneliners, but when you try to talk to them, you understand that they don't read anything but putin's papers and they don't care about repressions inside the country as putin's opposion is aways "sponsored by the west and only works to destroy russia as a state".

Don't get me wrong I like the USA far more than the Russia but I think Biden pushed Russia too much. This thing did not happen under Trump. under Trump, both countries were in friendly relation. also, I was watching China Global Television Network (CGTN), and they were saying that the Ukrainian president was a clown( literally) or something with no political knowledge. So much information, don't know what to believe.

american society protested against iraq war. what russians do? they either support massacre if they are brainwashed, or they are afraid of siloviks kicking in their home's doors if they stand up against agression. also, soviets were in afghanistan, but it's not something you'd want to use to support your position, right?

Does Russia have an alliance with Guatemala and all the other Latin American countries roundabout? Nope, just Cuba. Do the USA invade Mexico? Nope. Quite contrary. A poor comparison.
The USA is only part of this, because they are an ally of the European countries for 80 years now.
Why has the USSR not built up such a strong alliance with the European countries to avoid this situation? Why does everyone want to get in the NATO? And not into a new Warsow Pact?

Regarding Afghanistan: you know that Russia had gone there before, too? And the US and allies didn't go there to occupy it.
Regarding Iraq: There I agree, it's been a desaster.

Don't get me wrong I like the USA far more than Russia but I think Biden pushed Russia too much. This thing did not happen under Trump. under Trump, both countries were in friendly relation. also, I was watching China Global Television Network (CGTN), and they were saying that the Ukrainian president was a clown( literally) or something with no political knowledge. So much information, don't know what to believe.

Huh? If Russia hasn't invaded Afghanistan, then it also has no right to be proud of winning WW2. If, on the other hand, it considers itself to be the USSR successor, then it also hold responsibility for its acts like invading Afghanistan. Or are you just really, really bad when it comes to recent history?

Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979

How about Cuba?

Before WW2 start no one know this will end play of Hitler Actions, Who knows maybe this day will be remember in future as prelude to WW3. Bu even if not for sure new cold war.

He doesn't care much about his closest allies, what makes you think he cares about expendable cannon fodder? The moment these soldiers are imprisoned is the moment the propaganda machine starts saying something like 'oh look they've imprisoned our brave soldiers and torturing them now'.

My grandmother is pro-war (but that's ok, she's senile). My uncle is pro-war. My mom's best friend is pro-war. Most of my sister's colleagues are pro-war. My university friend is pro-war. My neighbors are pro-war. They are not awful people, mind you (well, except for my dearest grandmother, but that a different story); they've just been zombiefied (is this even a word in English?) by government media. Of course, they would change their tune as soon as their children, grandchildren, husbands are conscripted to army, but for now so many people are actually welcoming this war. It's hard to judge by social networks because troll factories are working 24/7, but still, I'm under an impression that voices of reason are actually the minority.

I think it's not really a surprise Russians don't want the war either.

It isn't a surprise, but sometimes something obvious can be easily forgotten. So I thought it would be a good thing to be reminded off.

Of course it does. Ukraine can still remain a neutral state with ties to and support from NATO countries. But whether or not Ukraine gets to join NATO is not up to Ukraine - it's up to NATO and if even one NATO country decides Ukraine membership is not worth the risk of a hot war with Russia or even possible nuclear exchange it will not be voted in. "The key determinant for any invitation to new members is whether their admission to NATO will strengthen the alliance and further the basic objective of NATO enlargement, which is to increase security and stability across Europe." (US State Dept.) This is clearly not currently the case - just the opposite. Putin has been drawing a line in the sand in regards to Ukraine membership since at least 2008. It's quite possible that he is merely using his objection to NATO membership as the excuse to invade. But, the problem is no one bothered to test that assertion and call his bluff to see if he would stand down if Ukraine and NATO backed off. If you want to call that appeasement, feel free, but I don't think that this issue is worth a possible world conflagration.
There are other ways to support and help Ukraine - and the most essential one is operating from a position of strength and will. We are just not doing a very good job of it right now. Putin is an opportunistic aggressor who only moves when he perceives weakness and vulnerability in his opponents. The Afghanistan withdrawal and the curtailment of fuel production in the US have signaled crucial weak points that he is happy to exploit. Now European NATO countries are constrained by dependence on Russian gas and the US has no means to bail them out and leaders in Washington are perceived as weak and ineffectual. Further, he's not worried about our sanctions because he now has China and Iran to help him out.
This is a truly dangerous situation for everyone, that might, might have been avoided. It was certainly worth a shot considering the alternatives. Just consider, all it will take is a Russian cyber attack on Ukraine that happens to spill over into neighboring NATO states to trigger Article 5 of the treaty and then we are all in the shit.

Napoleon started with Italy and only stopped in Waterloo, Hitler started with Poland and you know what came next. Putin is just one more dictator with the difference being he relies on nukes instead of soldiers and swords and musquets.

If no one stops him, next is Poland, or Romania.

Bullshit? Check what Putin did in 2008 to Georgia! Invaded and took a lot of territories. Russian Government = Putin the Tzar. He is only one who is ruling all this war and insanity.