Funny enough it's you resorting to MAGA style thinking here, let me show you how you got tricked by right wing propaganda into supporting the death of Ukrainians under the guise of "fighting for their sovereignty"

1. if not outright racist it's astoundingly chauvinistic to both assume Ukrainians have some sort of hive mind and are all of the near same opinion while at the same time insisting you know their current conditions better than them. There is no shortage of evidence from a plethora of western sources showing that this war has become incredibly unpopular and incredibly deadly with basically no viable path to victory however any attempt to negotiate a ceasefire has been blocked by US and other western interests with Zelensky playing the usual role of right wing comprador puppet to US imperial interests.

2. We're all well aware MAGA is renowned for their incredible ignorance of history and geopolitical phenomenon. Here too you mirror them by somehow being unaware of the US's leading role in regime change and the near identical patterns US regime change forces on the nations they take over. Economic privatization, enforced austerity, destruction of labor rights, destruction of left wing groups, media, leaders, labor organizers and organizations, forcing massive amounts of IMF debt, restructuring economies for capital to purchase public assets at bargain barrel prices while suppressing labor rights so capital has access to the lowest possible labor costs. All of which we've seen enacted in Ukraine with many of these happening almost immediately after the events of February 2014 in which an unelected interim prime minister was installed in a common US regime change operation widely known as a 'color revolution'.

3. Ignoring material reality for comforting ideals or "vibes based" analysis of the world are also hallmarks of MAGA if I'm not mistaken. Especially their uncritical acceptance of narratives propagated by wealthy interests that appeal far more to their emotions and feeling as opposed to more rational opinions and analysis based on actual evidence, historical precedent etc. The notion of a plucky underdog fighting a larger brutish and objectively evil attacker is certainly a narrative that pulls at the heartstrings, a classic romantic type of tale that has captivated humanity for millennia and without looking too much under the surface of this conflict it is incredibly easy to conclude that's exactly what we are seeing here, right? Well, unfortunately a peek beneath the surface reveals something more complicated and not nearly as clear cut.

Following the US's intentional destruction of Ukrainian sovereignty we see almost immediately in 2014 the CIA wholly taking over and reshaping Ukrainian intelligence into explicitly a weapon aimed at Russia. A "new mossad" a CIA operative called it as the Washington Post reported in 2023 (whoops woulda been nice to know that before the war started I guess, but it would have ruined the narrative). You're right Ukraine and its people are the victims here, but the original "attacker" was the US, which won decisively with very little actual fighting if we ignore the civil war that erupted in the wake of the relatively peaceful coup (again ignoring those labor organizers burnt to death and other relatively small amounts of violence). The US then went on to reshape Ukraine into the US's own "forward operating base" to stage an attack on Russia. During the Obama years the US was far more clandestine, starting with the above mentioned then-secret intelligence rehaul, a then-secret training program, and only shipping offensive weaponry via direct private sales instead of the more open federal programs which were explicitly for defensive equipment. Of course, with MAGA's unabashed love of brutality and carnage the first trump admin authorized the open shipping of offensive military capabilities to Ukraine in 2017 (which of course led to one of the dumbest attempts at a quid-pro-quo extortion later on in 2019 where trump tried to withhold arms unless supplied with info on Biden that of course resulted in nothing more than a slight delay in shipping missiles to Ukraine and being in general incredibly embarrassing overall for trump, if he was capable of feeling embarrassment that is).

Anyway, after all this blatant open and covert military build up, with a hot proxy war waging since 2014 under the guise of a civil war in the east with the US supplying intelligence, training and obscured private shipments of weapons to one side and Russia doing the same to the other it still took 8 years before Russia made a decisive escalatory move by entering the conflict openly (though their proxy involvement with the separatists was not nearly as well hidden as the US's on the other side) and yet still, after so much more info has come out, after so many US officials have openly stated how strategically ideal it is they are able to engage and over extend Russia without risking US lives (they do not care about Ukrainian lives, they have made abundantly clear at this point) after all the historical precedent of US backed regime change and US instigated proxy wars, hell with the US sending Ukraine and Israel weapons in the same bills, with Zelensky saying Ukraine is going to be a "Big Israel", with all the evidence of US and its allies interfering in and stopping peace deals ensuring the conflict continues with every year the viable paths to victory and potential benefits to Ukraine vanishing more and more before our eyes while the benefits to the US becoming clearer and clearer (separating the EU from cheap Russian gas allowing the US to sell more expensive gas to the EU (record production and record profits for US gas companies), bogging down Russia on its doorstep so other US global interference can continue with less a threat from Russia, especially in Africa and west Asia, the full privatization of Ukraine the US has wanted since the 90's, it's clear Ukraine is not winning here, but the US and wealthy US connected corporations sure are.

I'm certainly no fan of Russia's current largely socially conservative and nationalistic domestic politics and policies, which we both know is in part the reason so many MAGA types err on the side of Russia in this conflict, though I suspect the usual contrarian "well the democrats are pro-Ukraine so we have to be pro-Russia" is also shouldering some of the blame as well. The thing is you don't even have to "support" Russia, you can just support peace. That's what I would like to see, less deaths, less destruction, less families and bodies ripped apart. "But Russia could stop anytime, after all they started this" is the usual refrain, but as you can see this is not anywhere near the one-sided situation the prevailing narrative paints it as. Even looking at Russia-Ukraine relations prior to 2014 paints a wholly different picture than the "Russian bully" story, with Russia and Ukraine having largely a mutually beneficial relationship where Ukraine, having almost all the pipelines that allow Russian gas to access European markets, Russia had been giving Ukraine massive discounts on their own gas, the ability to collect transfer fees on that flow of gas to the EU and the only cost to Ukraine was the longstanding requirement to share a naval base in Crimea (which is why the annexation of Crimea happened almost immediately in 2014, the previous US attempt at intervening in Ukraine's sovereignty was open about its desire to deprive Russia of an important naval asset, and I don't think I have to tell you that no matter how "legally" something like that is done, a hostile state taking a military asset from a geopolitical rival is of course a non-starter, especially right after a hostile takeover). The FPRI piece Bond of War does a good job illustrating pre-2014 Russian-Ukraine relations as well as the many many non violent and legal steps Russia took to attempt to resolve this conflict, one of which involved the IMF breaking its own rules to force Ukraine into a debt trap while also showing that while Russia did have considerable economic leverage it never once resorted to using that. Which of course makes this all the more tragic in how absolutely avoidable this was with the US backed side being the nearly sole party responsible for forcing this situation to exist.

Anyway, I do hope you take the chance to differentiate yourself from MAGA behavior and possibly consider this information and have it expand your world view instead of plugging your ears and accusing me of being paid off by ~~Soros~~ Putin and insisting your currently held beliefs couldn't possibly be wrong. That is of course your choice to make. At the very least if you do choose that rout perhaps other people less inclined towards MAGA thinking could read this and find some benefit. My apologies for this getting longer than I intended, but sometimes getting to the bottom of more complicated geopolitical phenomena requires a bit more reading and/or writing.

https://www.fpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/rpe-5-hess-final-.pdf

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/zelenskyy-wants-ukraine-to-be-a-big-israel-heres-a-road-map/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/23/ukraine-cia-shadow-war-russia/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html

https://chambers.com/articles/ukraine-relaunches-privatization-future-belongs-to-the-brave

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-labour-law-wrecks-workers-rights/

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/04/07/300236259/ukraines-winter-of-discontent-gives-way-to-spring-of-austerity