Ani has a point. Don’t you remember when the United States sent in the military and took over the legislative functions of Russia and forced them all into that model? Remember when we put on the sanctions unless they created oligarchs and threatened economic ruin to everyone unless they did the United States bidding in the minutest detail when creating the new Russia? Remember how the US had to show our handpick oligarchs Russian history books to explain what a Boyer was? Remember how there was no corruption in Russia, no Russian mob, and no attempts to grift or cheat the state before the Americans interfered in the 1990s?
If you think about it, poor innocent Russia was just waiting for a western style democracy to happen - and when it happened, the United States took control of the entirety of the former Soviet Union and changed its entire culture in a decade. These are important facts to consider when looking at the Russian-Ukraine war.