> Not evidently.

Of course, winning side dislike news against itself, a small historic example: how many know that USA companies and various part of the government helped the nazi's in WWII even after the start of the war? How many know that IBM provide systems to them to track Hebrews and political opponent, Standard Oil provide petroleum products etc to a point that one of the master of USA propaganda, Eduard Bernays was thanked by hitler and goebbels for it's inspirations? How many know that UK crown pay mussolini in Italy and then probably manage to kill him when they can't rescue him to avoid at that time that such infos became public? How many know that Marshall plan was NOT a generous donation to war-destroyed countries but a masterpiece of theft where forcing loosing power to withdraw their resources imposing even new currencies (Amlire in Italy, Neue deutsche mark in Germany) actually just giving back some of the resources they steal from them? How many recall "Operation Unthinkable" or "Operation Dropshot"?

As Bernays so Anne Morelli states in her "10 principes élémentaires de propagande de guerre" the wining side must be only angelic and the loosing side only demoniac...

> Yeah, everything they do looks like they want communism back.

They do worse than that: socialism (witch was the start, communism came after and some think came thanks to UK crown and Germany money to subvert the inizial revolution) impose a "religion of the party" that makes many disaster but at least push countries toward modernization, too quickly, making disasters, but with results, newer regime choose classical religions obscurantism (just look recent anti-abortion laws in Poland but also in the USA) witch have done worst because it's the same oppression and have no modernization aspects. Soviets say "work hard to create paradise of workers in life" classic systems say "work hard to get a paradise when you are dead" so at least the former leave a dream...

> So, we should just talk about ideal governments and do nothing because we consider both sides criminals?

For Ukraine both sides are criminals, but Russian side have interests but also some good reasons, the nazi-NATO side have just interests. Ukraine Russian-speaking populations was persecuted, killed, raped, systematically since at least 2014's Euromaidan not by Ukrainian-speaking part of the population but by nazi militias like Azov battalion, C14, Pravy Sektor etc that are armed and trained by NATO. So Putin is a dictator and want Ukraine for it's position and resources, BUT also have reasons to act because many (few millions?) Russian-speaking Citizens suffer countless crimes in a year long attempt of genocide. So while remain a dictatorship have all the right to say "we do special ops, even not war, because a war is against a state-enemy, not against common crocks armed and trained by some enemies, to stop a genocide of our friendly populations". Something USA can't even say for Iraq or Afghanistan, so to speak... That's the main difference. And Russians do not left a Russian speaking population in Ukraine, while USA create talibans (and probably also ISIS) for their own interests and that's turned bad at a certain point in time.