> If Russia is or is not justified in its invasion of Ukraine, what is it? I've no idea. I don't know if there is such a thing as a justified invasion; and if

> If Russia is or is not justified in its invasion of Ukraine, what is it? I've no idea. I don't know if there is such a thing as a justified invasion; and if there is, then what are its criteria; and whether all countries have agreed to recognize the same set of criteria; and what specific criteria Russia would claim that it met in this case. I know that there were several ill-defined reasons that the Russian government offered to its citizens. Obviously, after the invasion had already started. Obviously, insisting that they are in the right. I have not heard an in-depth analysis of their reasons against the criteria of a justified invasion. All I heard are fragments. > What word would you use here when someone is attempting to draw a comparison in order to make one thing "ok" because of another thing? "similar"? "dissimilar"? "understandable"? "incomprehensible"? "ok" is a moral judgement; and applying a moral yardstick to instigators of a war is ... hard.