Self-defence has nothing to do with Russias invasion. This was not a war for survival but a war for subjugation. Nobody outside of ex-Soviet Union countrys hat

Self-defence has nothing to do with Russias invasion. This was not a war for survival but a war for subjugation. Nobody outside of ex-Soviet Union countrys hated Russians before the war. If you really want to invoke and analogue from US history then the only example that comes to my mind is the US war of independence and I'm pretty sure on which side of that fight US would like to be.