Either there is international law or there is not.

- NATO bombed Serbia with no repercussions.

- The US / UK /etc. invaded Iraq with no repercussions.

- NATO invaded Afghanistan with no repercussions

- The US invaded Syria and is currently controlling (occupying) 1/3 of the country.

All of those (and several other) major war crimes have been committed by the US in the last 20 years.

As a result, we (the US) have no right to call out Russia for invading Ukraine. Zero. They are following our precedence.

This is not "two wrongs make a right." It is, "Russia does not accept that international law is only applicable when it suits NATO."

That Ukraine is resisting? No doubt. I fully understand the average Ukrainians and the Ukrainian soldiers. Ukrainian leaders from 2014? Not so much. The democratically elected government of Ukraine was overthrown in a violent, US backed coup, and an unelected leader was placed by the US into power.

Since 2014 the US has been flooding Ukraine with weapons and soldiers. Ukraine has been suppressing and killing anyone who resists the new regime. Thus the civil war since 2014.

I have empathy for the Ukrainians. If the US would have left Ukraine alone, this war would not have happened. Unfortunately we can't go back in time.

Ukraine cannot win this war unless NATO troops come in. Russia has said they will attack those troops, thus quite possibly leading to WWIII and the end of human civilization.

I have empathy for the Ukrainians. I am not willing to risk WWIII for them.