No one said it was legitimate insofar as that means ethical. I am simply curious about the huge wave of groupthink sentiment that makes no attempt to fill every

No one said it was legitimate insofar as that means ethical. I am simply curious about the huge wave of groupthink sentiment that makes no attempt to fill everyone in on the context of the situation, and whether this was actually a logical (absence all ethics) move by Russia. One of the replies to my comment offered an interesting perspective. We live in a real world with real events. Just because us westerners have been shielded from war for most of our lives, and because war is immoral, does not mean that it won't happen, or that it isn't interesting to think about it objectively. Makes one wonder if the fact that most Ukrainians are white people living in an industrialized society has anything to do with the scale of the outpouring of emotion on HN and elsewhere.