(2) 🇷🇺&amp; 🇺🇦had a treaty allowing 🇷🇺troops in Crimea.  Crimeans voted 96-4% to REjoin 🇷🇺(historically part of 🇷🇺until "given" to 🇺🇦in 1954 by a USSR dictator) rather than submit to a hostile unelected govt.   2022 was provoked by 8 years of 🇺🇦bombing ethnic Russians in Donbass.