[Boudica]

I suspect no war is ever worth it, especially to those that lose someone. However, there's no country/nation that's history is free from it.

Exactly. Though we may talk about ideals like peace, democracy, human rights and freedoms, at the end of the day, they are still ideals that can never be truly reached in a world like this. We should always keep that in the back of our minds when dealing with these situations.

So, I'd be curious to see what Russian's themselves think about this. I'm aware thousands of their citizens have been arrested for protesting, and independent media companies are being censored. So I'm curious to see what this war would look like, from someone of a different bias to my own. What do they think of the protestors. How much do they believe the Nazi narrative?

Agreed! This is something that's been on my mind as well. I'd love to hear another side to the story, the side that the western media we follow doesn't show us.
That's why it piqued my curiosity when you mentioned that you had real life Ukrainian friends which talked about the Russian perspective. Did they share anything that could help answer some of these questions?

Agreed! There's a big difference between ideals and reality.

My Ukrainian friend was mostly explaining to others in the social group why the Russian's believed what the believed. She was talking about some of the media censorship that goes on which can shape a narrative. However, she of course, is not in Russia right now xD