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Again, I completely understand the sentiment. I am very antiwar myself and would much prefer if countries were all peaceful toward each other. The thing is, going back to my analogy, in a world without a police force that can take care of it for you, at some point you need to take action to defend yourself if your neighbor is seriously threatening you. I can certainly understand someone deciding to take aggressive action to get a situation like that under control before they get killed. This is not a blanket license for everyone to invade each other, but only a limited license to act in self-defense.
The real situation is even worse, by the way. It's as if half your immediate neighbors on one side of your house were part of an "anti-you" coalition and had guns pointed at your house, then one more neighbor on that side had through a questionable process decided to join that coalition and place more guns pointed at your house.
I understand that. It was more a rhetorical question and a general "you".
Some threats are much more concrete and serious than others. Sure, wars are always unpredictable by nature and should only be used in very, very limited circumstances. I would very much have preferred that Russia wouldn't have invaded Ukraine, but I understand their reasons for doing so, especially when they had been warning about it and explaining their rationale for years.