Are we supposed to just erase that Kiev was shelling and slaughtering the seperatists in the Donbass region for a decade prior? And that these same people specifically requested Russia comes in and help? It's incredibly important to analyze situations and why they happen, because they tell you what options we realistically have when it comes to trying to find the best outcome. It seems you've taken the opposite approach, turning a blind eye to everything that built up towards this in a Marvel-style hope that the "good guys" will beat the "bad guys" and everyone will live happily every after.

Your comment is a prime example of the clash between two paradigms in understanding international relations:

• The Liberal-Idealist Paradigm, where conflicts arise from the violation of universal norms and rights. The solution is to isolate the aggressor, punish it, and support the victim. Morality and law are the main guiding principles. The comment is written from this perspective.

• The Realist Paradigm, from Classical Geopolitics, where international relations are an anarchic environment where states rationally (though sometimes erroneously) pursue their national interests based on security, power, and influence. From this viewpoint, moral assessments are useless for analysis; one must study the balance of power, geography, interests, and perceived threats.

You made a morally powerful but analytically poor statement. It accurately reflects the emotional mood of a significant part of the international community and serves as an important reminder of the human dimension of the conflict. However, as a tool for understanding what is happening and forecasting future events, it is useless and even harmful, as it calls for the abandonment of critical analysis in favor of pure moralizing. The task of a geopolitical expert is to synthesize both approaches: to be fully aware of the monstrous nature of events, while also coldly and rationally analyzing the mechanisms driving them.