| Multiple actors can be horrible (<0 ethics), but that doesn't mean that their absolute ethics value is irrelevant, or their relative horribleness to others. Russia is systematically deporting Ukrainian children to Russia and integrating them into Russian families as a matter of state policy. They're also indiscriminately bombing civilian targets weekly. Even during the worst days of Fallujah, the US and UK didn't pull back and just arbitrarily pound the city to dust with standoff munitions out of spite. Ukraine inherited a substantial amount of Soviet materiel after the collapse of the USSR, as well as the personnel trained in its use, however this quickly deteriorated as the support industrial base was in tatters (in Ukraine and Russia). But in the early 90s they absolutely could have made a very credible invasion against most of their neighbors. [0,1] Especially, say, the Cobasna ammunition depot in Moldova that's right on their border with up to 20,000 tons of Soviet munitions. [2] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunn%E2%80%93Lugar_Cooperati... [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobasna_ammunition_depot |