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Oh well if it is just to make Russia big again like the imperial days, I guess all that death and destruction is totally acceptable and a fine course of action, then. What was I thinking, imagining that allowing a naked lebensraum style land grab go off would let world leaders seeking more territory know they can take whatever they want? Obviously that would be fine if you could point to a map from a few centuries ago where it says "we totally own this forever guys". Gosh, I was so silly, I should pay more attention to geopolitics.
"is totally acceptable and a fine course of action"
Motte-and-Bailey fallacy.
The argument is not that it is okay to invade countries based on historical claims, it's not. It's that we have no basis for thinking that Russia's motivation for invading Ukraine and Georgia applies to invading all other countries of the world, which is the argument you made and repeated here again.
You realise that most invasions in the world are ignored by the global community? They mostly happen in Africa. So you trying to generalize it from Russia to all aggressor states in the world, is also false. Most invasions do not receive major international response, so why would aggressor states look at a lack of response to the invasion of Ukraine for inspiration and not say the Second Congo War?
"Gosh I was so silly"
"Brain-dead" is the term I would use.
"I should pay more attention to geopolitics"
And English class, and elementary logic.