It's the US, there are no non-Hitler candidates
In 2014 a bunch of Ukrainian nazis couped the democratically elected government and started ethnically cleansing the Russian population in the Donbas. Some sections of the Ukrainian military rebelled and formed militia units to protect the population from being murdered by nazis, leading to a low level civil war stretching on for years. Ukrainian nazi paramilitaries continued persecuting ethnic Russian Ukrainians civilians as well as shelling Donetsk and Lugansk
During this time Russia tried repeatedly to conduct diplomacy with the nazis western handlers, the US and the UK, as well as interested third parties such as Germany and France. However, it was pointless as the US never intended to back down and continuously goaded the Ukrainian nazis into attacks on the Donbas, all the while supplying them with money and weapons. When the war seemed to be escalating to the point NATO forces might join in, Russia - understanding that any actual direct combat between Russian and NATO soldiers would lead to a global nuclear holocaust - jumped in with its troops first... after spending three days voting to formally recognize the independence of the DPR and LPR, of course, because Putin is a bureaucrat to the core and these things must be done properly.
And now, the people of Donetsk and Luhansk can live quietly without fear of nazi missiles blowing up their city centers for no reason.
My favorite is the guy who lays out an exact material analysis of the latest situation, with the kind of clear-eyed piercing insight that's almost impossible for anyone who's not a Marxist, and then at the very end goes "Yeah so that's that, of course this is all happening because Zelensky is Jewish and want to take over Ukraine and western Russia so he can restore the Khazar khaganate".
Russia, take my energy!
Israel is the live-fire testing range of all the Empire's tools of opression. They have a thousand startups throwing shit at the wall, and the 1% that sticks gets deployed everywhere else. Those can range from facial recognition cameras and AI SIGINT filtering to new brutal policing and anti-riot tactics and techniques.
The People's Netrunner
That and presumably retaliation for the suicidally idiotic bear-poking the Ukrainians have been doing by attacking Belgorod, the oil refineries and those vote trucks.
Ansarallah, you are above even the Air Boss... I hereby award you the title of BIG Air Boss
Only Colonels and above, which means they have to have been there for at least 10 working days
The version of history where the Spartacists win, there are no Nazis or WW2, no fascist Spain etc. and all the German Jewish nuclear physicists never flee to the US so nukes are never invented, or better yet only the socialists have them... no I don't dream about this timeline daily
Also "appeasement" is a made up post-hoc explanation for the western Allies' actions before WW2, blaming the supposed naivete or lack of spine of the leaders for simply allowing the Nazis to make expansionist moves uncontested, rather than it being an intentional policy to get out of their way and try to direct them eastwards against the Soviet Union.
That's pretty funny at least