Because you’re making excuses and deflecting on a situation which is very clear cut. The Ukraine are a democracy who’s only “crime” is wanting to join the EU and NATO like many other countries including countries they share a border with.
The fact that the Russian government are imprisoning opposition voices in their own country to the war should be a red flag for you. Instead you’ve decided to push propaganda that the Kremlin have created.
I mean they destroyed a building yesterday which had the words “Children” written clearly outside it. Thousands of civilians dead, millions have fled and Russia continue to pound their cities.
Again it’s pretty clear cut and being reported by almost the entire globe not just Western Main stream media.
Understanding why this situation is the way it is isn't imo " making excuses and deflecting on a situation that is clear cut". That actually tells me that you are the victim of your own propaganda system. Shall I go through this a little more? My guess is you haven't the openness of mind toi undertsand that you can take positions on this that are a whole lot less contradictory than what is being passed off here as the infomed view, the non propagandized view and it's simply false.
Ukraine should be allowed to make its own decisions, even though I would question its credentials as a democracy since 2014 when the democratically elected government was ousted in a US backed coup.
In the real world this isn't how things play out, it's not a judgement call , it's just a fact. An easy example
Nicaragua overthrows its dictatorial leader Somoza and is rewarded with a proxy war that destroys the country prosecuted by the US. Who is screaming about Nicaraguan rights to self rule/enjoy sovereignty? Nobody.
There is a war going on in Yemen that has caused nearly 400,000 deaths and is made possible by NATO member states assistance/weapons sales to Saudi Arabia. Not a word. Do you think it's because they are brown and Ukrainians are white? Or that we are the ones selling them cluster munitions etc? Or both?
So on sovereignty, in the real world, it is a case of the powerful do what they like and the weak suffer what they must as a result. Again not a judgement but an acceptance of the reality.
What you people do, all the time btw, is that you mistake reality fact based posting as support for the crimes of Putin when it's not. Your resort to citing a school hit or the death of a pregnant woman as if this only happened in Ukraine and not in the places I mention above. I hate all wars but I don't see the coverage of our wars against people of colour/weaker nations being propagandized like Ukraine has been.
That Russian troops have committed crimes and that the war itself is illegal is noot even being disputed but to write off any inconvenient truthes to the preferred narrative as " Kremlin propaganda " is weak, lazy and inaccurate. That's what you people do and that's why it is yourself that is on the wrong side.
