Responding as someone that has spent a good amount of time there, having trained a long time to fight Russians.

> We rightly stand in solidarity with Ukraine

Which Ukraine? There are actually two of them!

The eastern half is culturally, economically, philisophically, politically, Russian and in Russia's sphere of influence.

The western half is like continental Europe.

This is why I have joked w friends there, calling the East "Little Russia", or, "Western Russia". This was before all the recent wars too.

> Imagine living somewhere where your future just got vaporized and if you speak up about it, you risk ending up in a gulag. It’s a nightmare.

The Russians on the Wastern Front really defeated the Nazi War machine of Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe & SS, not us Yanks & Brits on the West. They did this at a huge cost and lost ~8-10M men, ~20M in total, in the process. This is actually seared into the Russian memory.

They will never permit a hostile enemy this close to their borders again.

Particularly not an enemy that promised a number of times never to move NATO Eastward [1] [2] , and has recently fomented color revolutions [3] in a number of their allies, and, is regularly enlisting NGOs to attack them.

Nope, we gave them casus belli a long time ago, and the US mainstream media regularly stokes the fires of Russophobia [4]

Remember, it is the same Pro-Nazi Azov Battalion [5] that found a prominent place in the Western Ukrainians military, and then promoted them to SF, and gave them western advisers and western arms.

> "Although Moscow had little choice but to acquiesce to the admission of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic into NATO, Russian concerns grew as enlargement continued. It didn’t help that enlargement was at odds with U.S. Secretary of State James Baker’s verbal assurance to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in February 1990 that if Germany were allowed to reunify within NATO then the alliance would not move “one inch eastward”—a pledge Gorbachev foolishly failed to codify in writing. (Baker and others dispute this characterization, and Baker has denied that he made any formal pledges.) Russia’s doubts increased when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003—a decision that showed a certain willful disregard for international law—and even more after the Obama administration exceeded the authority of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 and helped oust Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi in 2011. Russia had abstained on the resolution—which authorized protecting civilians but not regime change—and former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates later commented that “the Russians felt they had been played for suckers.” These and other incidents help explain why Moscow is now insisting on written guarantees." [6]

Yet, here we are, literally getting in bed with Nazis for the sake of NATO adventurism. This is why I am against getting involved.

[1] https://mltoday.com/new-document-us-promised-not-to-expand-n...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-01-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution

[4] https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/25/235254/

[5] https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ab7dw/azov-battalion-ukrain...

[6] https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/19/ukraine-russia-nato-cri...