The Donbass region is pro-Russian, and Kiev has been at war with that region for a decade since the Euromaidan coup of 2014 ousted the president they supported. I don't know why liberals love metaphors and analogies, nor why they're always terrible, it's closer to a couple getting into a domestic fight with the husband physically abusing the wife, and the wife calling her neighbor for help.
There's no genocide in Ukraine. It's a war, not a genocide. If you want to see genocide, look at what Israel is doing in Palestine.
Ukraine is slowly losing, it's not a wakeup call, it's a way for NATO countries to get very rich and damage Russia at the expense of Ukraine.