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There is so much American, Ukrainian, and Russian propaganda about the war. I've been learning Russian and talking to many Russians and Ukrainians this past year.
Surprise surprise, a war is complex. I can't explain it very well because I struggle to understand it at times myself.There was an eight year civil war, decades of Soviet occupation and centuries of Imperial occupation before that. Just scratching the surface.
NGL, Russian language isn't as complex as the war going on. And declining nouns sucks.
Good on you for learning Russian, though. If you get a chance, go visit. The food is great, and the people are mostly good too.
"occupation"
Hard to call something an occupation if there didn't exist a stable predecessor polity to occupy. It'd be like saying that Sweden, then Russia "occupied" Finland before 1917, which would only be true in the loosest sense of the word and bases on Romantic, nationalist ideals that date from the historically recent 19th century.