It’s not simple-minded, it’s the strongest parallel, but I’m not doing your work for you. You have written a lot… of verbose personal attacks. It’s not worth sifting through to find the needle that may have been a logical, coherent argument. Your justification of Putin’s actions requires accepting a revisionist history authored by the man himself, which does not make it a just war; it makes an excuse to do what he wants. As he did in 2014. No reason to believe he stops where he is now given his history.