>>510619287>The West wants NATO ethnically cleansedIt likely did. Look at UK, France, etc. The West is ruled by liberals, look how much they hate and despise nationalists who appose mass migration. Ukraine was very nationalistic and had strong ethnic ties.
All things the current West wants gone.
>How is Russia being able to pass under the radar and do no bad in the eyes of people like you is beyooooond meThere's confusion on your part. If we want to talk about what caused all of this conflict, the catalyst was Western powers talking about admitting Ukraine into NATO is what caused all of this. Keep in mind this is after we supported a coup in Ukraine in 2015 or so.
Consider this
Russia had a some motivations for taking Ukrainian land (long borders that hard to defend, decreasing population projections, etc), but none of those motivations were nearly as legitimate as preventing Ukraine from joining NATO.
Russia responded in it's own interests to provocative actions.
Russia and Ukraine have a flat land border. NATO would park columns of tanks, hyper sonic missiles, soldiers, and would've checkmated Russia into tactical submission. Russia wouldn't be able to protect the NATO land border front. Russia would lose any war started unless they went nuclear, but even in that case they would've lost because the whole world would lose.
The West also saw a lot of potential benefits from this conflict. And because of Covid and the economic impact, a wild card was welcomed:
>IF Ukraine joins NATO = West gets access to an even larger flat land border with Russia, knocks Russia down a peg, and more man power for NATO>IF civil war starts in Russia over this war + sanctions = West wins>IF the West backs Ukraine with new tech and depletes Russia of their fighters = West winsAt worst, the West saw that the war provides the West to fight Russia via proxy attrition while also allowing the West to study Russia's military strategies /tactics. Which is a positive.