You say Ukraine is fighting for their own territory, this is not true, the Donbas militias are fighting for their own territory, they are the ones that have been attacked, and Russia has come to their aid, finally. Russia has made mistakes, and Putin has admitted these mistakes. You are free to hate Russia, but you don't get to make up your own facts.
In the US, our hollow abstractions of "freedom and democracy" play the same role as the Russian "patriotism" you describe.
We seem to be tragic mirror images in what, in the final analysis, are wars over commercial alliances.
We have a lot in common with Russia.
Reminds me of this: there are two kinds of people, those that hate and those that just want to live.
These were also my thoughts while reading this piece.
No gods, no masters, no borders! The nation state is the problem not the solution.
You say Ukraine is fighting for their own territory, this is not true, the Donbas militias are fighting for their own territory, they are the ones that have been attacked, and Russia has come to their aid, finally. Russia has made mistakes, and Putin has admitted these mistakes. You are free to hate Russia, but you don't get to make up your own facts.
Way to miss the forest to piss on a single tree.