After the western sponsored coup in 2014 the eastern regions of Ukraine wanted to separate and Ukraine has been in a civil war since then. What Russia did is actually directly modelled on what NATO did in Yugoslavia where they recognized the independence of the breakaway regions and then had them invite NATO for help. That's literally the precedent that you NATO chuds set.

You still haven’t replied to my point about whether Russia or other nations should have surrendered when they were attacked by axis powers.

The point where you're trying to compare people of eastern Ukraine fighting for independence from the coup regime that was shelling them with cluster munitions to nazis? If you don't understand why that's an idiotic comparison, then what else is there to say to you.

Of course that’s bad.

Oh, it's bad, but the people the coup regime was shelling apparently don't get a right of self determination according to you.

The NATO crap isn’t even worth discussing and is just a flimsy excuse from Russia to try and justify the “special military operation”.

Actual geopolitical experts disagree, but I guess you think you know better because you've demonstrated such deep understanding of the subject in this thread. Fun fact is that Russia wanted to join NATO in the 90s and NATO told Russia to fuck off after which point NATO went on to invade a bunch of countries such as Yugoslavia, Libya, and Syria and continued to surround Russia militarily.

You're an ignoramus and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself.