
Completely manufactured justification. They donโt like their former satellite states moving out from under their thumb. And I donโt think โdefending the Russian peopleโ necessitates attempting to deny the existence of Ukrainians as a people, massacres of civilian populations, and forcibly Russifying kidnapped Ukrainian children.
You didnโt reply to the point I made about how supporting Russia makes you a revolutionary working class intellectual. Thatโs okay. I never argued that Russia โrespects constitutionsโ (abstract qualifier). I said that in 2014 the illegal coup of Ukraines government led it to become a colony of the ruling class