I’m sorry, I thought you understood we were talking about Ukraine

We were, but you decided to talk about your embarrassment and atrocities in Afghanistan, for some reason.

I’ve heard claims that the 2014 was western-backed, though I’ve never seen anyone attempt to substantiate that claim

The Nuland-Pyatt correspondence where they discussed whom to put on the throne in Ukraine instead of the then-current leader were leaked in early February of 2014, before the coup. She also bragged about how much the US spent on influencing the Ukrainian government. And, of course, the leaders of the coup were politicians - it was not a grassroots movement.

Go ahead and quote the part where I said anything about how they should or shouldn’t resist

You keep talking about how Russia is bad for resisting you, for example.

I never did, nor was that the topic at hand

It’s literally the topic at hand. You started it by talking about how Russia shouldn’t have resisted your aggression the way Russia did.

Attempting to force me to answer it is nothing but an attempt at grandstanding

Cool. So, what you said is that Russia responded correctly to your aggression. Good to know that you will now delete your cold comments now that you realise that you were in the wrong.

The discussion at hand, since you seem to be struggling to grasp that, was whether or not Russia was trying to prevent war in Ukraine

War with NATO more generally.

And yeah, Russia did try to resolve it otherwise. Russia did not just do an overt full-scale invasion in 2014.

Ukraine being the country they invaded

After NATO did a coup in Ukraine and set up a puppet government there that was attempting to bring NATO’s weapons to the Russian border.

Voluntarily

Cool. So what would you do? Let the most prolific aggressor in the world harass and attack you? Lol.

Notably, you are fine with voluntarily invading Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Korea, committing genocides, including the one in the occupied Palestine, known torture sites, coups, etc.