it's even more shocking when you consider how much land russia is occupying, which is equivalent to Vermont, New Hamphire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and half of Maine. Imagine if Canada invaded and the West Coast was like "oh well, sucks to be a New Englander, good luck with that 🙏"
On the subject of land acquisition this is how much land Mexico ceded to the United States when the USA invaded Mexico in 1847. The war ended a year later. Mexico lost.
yeah I'm definitely not painting the US as some kind of hero. We have done a lot of bad shit, made a lot of terrible decisions and caused a lot of suffering. However, Ukraine is an exception; supporting them is unequivocally the right thing to do.
