trader4 @ optonline.net" wrote:

So, if this is a US thing and Russia is right and justified in what
Putin is doing, why is it that Canada, Britain, France, Germany and
8 other European countries are all agreeing with the US position,
that the Russian invasion is illegal and unwarranted?

Because the west can do nothing but posture.

Anyone who thinks that Russia would do nothing and lose political
control or affiliation with Ukraine (especially the Crimea - with
Sevastopol) is crazy.

By all accounts, most of the population of that region feel more like
ethnic Russians anyways, so for them it's a matter of fighting the
western half of Ukraine as they try to tear them *away* from Russia.