Don’t you remember Libya? Iraq? Afghanistan? Bosnia? We know how the news operates in these situations.

Yes: We have plenty of reports about shit that people did. And we have the same now.

This is misframing refugees fleeing into Russia as abduction.

a) UN. b) Have you watched the Russian state TV shows where they parade them? If you know anything about body language they were screaming "The fuck why do I have to say this vile shit they put in my mouth I want out of here".

These aren’t moustache-twirling villains.

Indeed not, but only because Putin doesn't have a beard.

Why are you defending a genocidal regime? It's hitting all five points of the UN genocide convention, one would suffice.