Yes, it matters, but I understand your point.

It's not ok for nations to invade others, and I'm not arguing it's ok for Russia. It is possible to hold more than one view at the same time. The US was wrong to intervene in Ukraine's politics and establish military bases along Russia's border and Russia's invasion is horrific.

Standing up for what is right all the time is recognizing and demanding my government respect international laws and nations' security concerns. We don't have to pick up a side, and Russia and the US are wrong to intervene in Ukraine.

Ukraine deserves peace, yet the US-NATO knowingly pursued the option that threatened Ukrainian and Russian security. The USSR did not feel safe when the US put nukes in Turkey, so it put nukes in Cuba threatening American lives. This is what happens when we don't respect others.

Americans don't deserve more rights than other nations, and I don't see a difference between governments. We fight wars they start, and what do we get for it? Did the war improve Ukrainian and American lives? Wouldn't prevention and a peace plan be better options? Is anyone safer?

No government should dominate another or have unlimited power, yet the US has had unrestrained hegemony, disregarding sovereignty. There's a reason the Global South won't align with the US and calls for multipolarity. Yet, I am not calling for multipolarity.

I have no say in Russia, but I'm an American citizen, and I demand my government withdraw from the foreign policies that serve a minority's wealth and power. It spends billions on democracy abroad, yet doesn't care that Americans don't have healthcare, affordable housing, labor rights, or human rights.

When our government starts providing for Americans, I'll believe it cares about foreign nations' well-being, but it has to stop prioritizing corporate interests first. Until then, every so-called democratic invasion is an alibi for powerful interests.