I would really, really like to know why you are so hellbent on sucking up to Russia (sorry, I can't put it any other way), while endlessly blackpilling, conspiracy talk and piling doom on the US at every turn. Hell, I'm the impression you WANT to see Russia expand the borders to the Vistula, and see that the US turns into a Balkanized hellhole, because in your mind, the US deserves it, right???
I think he's seen some of what I saw.
Ukraine has been in a state of civil war for years, an area of the Ukraine has been Russian, both in terms of lang, and ethnic, to the point that many of them wanted to rejoin Russia, and were willing to fight for it, with the ethnic Ukrainians being willing to fight as well. This was started back in the USSR days, where Russian supremists depopulated the area, and moved Russians, mostly unwilling pesants, in. It's been their home ever since, and given this all happened more than 50 years ago, most grew up there.
The conflict, as is common in civil wars, and worse still in 3rd world nations, was messy as hell. I haven't looked too much into it, but I know plenty of horrors happened. Russia's tried to protect the ethnic Russians (and take a bit more territory) at least once, I think.
At the same time, there have been at least 2 times the West has supported new govenments, and at least once the Russians have done the same. The current govenment of Ukraine was supported by western interests, while the Russian govenment looked on with quiet horror.
Then came 2015, where suddenly everything wrong with the US was Russia's fault. The group who pushed that are the same group who have been doing "regime change" all over the Middle East. Swamp creatures, like Joe Biden.
Don't get me wrong. Russia's a shithole, run by a classic 3rd world dictator. But, there's quite a bit of evidence that Ukraine's as bad or worse. And Russia's been reasonably calm, until it really started to look like there was a concerted push in many senior western leaders to "regime change" them, and they've been slowly getting more and more unhinged.
I'm genuinely expecting Putin to be completely unwilling to compromise, to the point that he'll throw nukes around, because to his eyes, it's that or death.
The fact the Ukraine is getting squished between the West and Russia isn't something I like. The fact that the leader of Ukraine, Zelensky, is always pushing for more western infuence, for NATO membership, and since the start of the war, for various ideas that would push Putin to the point where his choices are nuke or die? The connections between the Biden family and Ukraine companies, the bio labs funded by the US? The known footage of Joe Biden forcing Ukraine to fire one of their prosecutors, to protect the company that his crackhead son was working for? I'm not putting all the blame on Putin.
What a stupid mess. And, it never had to happen.