[docmars]

Invade? Absolutely not -- they would have no chance.

Poke the hornet's nest? Yes, I'm saying that. This was a collusion between the U.S., Ukraine, and other globalist EU nations to make Russia look bad using their mass media machine to spread lies about a senseless war, use it as cover to launder money around, and punish / attack a nation (Russia) that isn't submitting to their globalist agenda -- just like they did to Iraq, and several others who wouldn't comply, on the basis of not accepting the U.S. petrodollar.

Why is Russia forming BRICS with nearly half the world? To escape from the clutches of the U.S. empire strangling them.

[degradas]

"Make Russia look bad" - what does that even mean? I'm country A, country B writes bad things about me in their media, so I will invade them, bomb their electricity grid and try to overthrow their government - by what logic is that a valid casus belli?

"Isn't submitting to their globalist agenda" - again, what does that mean? As you yourself point out, nobody was planning to invade them. Russia is the largest country in the world by land mass with abundant natural resources - oil, gas, diamonds and other riches. But instead of focusing on improving lives for ordinary russians, they want to expand that "russian world" which only brings death and destruction.

See this [1] for a perfect example of the imperial mindset - Putin saying that "Russia’s borders do not end anywhere"

[1] https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1746784252312891463?lan...

[khokhol]

To punish / attack a nation (Russia) that isn't submitting to their globalist agenda .. To escape from the clutches of the U.S. empire strangling them

That's a pretty naive, cartoon-like narrative of events, you know.

[docmars]

It is pretty silly how much our world events reflect that, you're right! I'm wondering the same thing. Alas, true as this narrative is.