This is silly. The U.S. military did not invade Ukraine, the Russians did. The Russia government made that choice; it cannot blame it on someone else. > Russia

This is silly. The U.S. military did not invade Ukraine, the Russians did. The Russia government made that choice; it cannot blame it on someone else. > Russia would not be able to say ... On a much more minor point, the Russian government will find a way to justify whatever it wants to do. They are not waiting for the U.S. to somehow give them the right to do it; they don't care about or need any truth or facts. For example, like the good propagandists they are, they fabricated that entire fictional structure on a tiny kernel of truth and now even people on HN are repeating it. That is information power.