Because Russia is the aggressor and has literally billions of dollars of sanctions leveraged against them.

I've always had an anti-war stance, which is why my take was always "get NATO the fuck out of there and let those two figure it out"

They've been doing nothing but sabotaging peace talks and trying to get people back to fighting. They're war profiteers. They need to go.

What's the difference between a full scale and a half scale invasion?

That was my first thought. Seems this op is politically motivated with a strong bias