the Ukrainian Question

[Lilith7]

lilith wrote

 Indeed. 

But the thing is though that we didn't have to behave like that; we didn't have to invade other countries & subjugate other people.

i cannot concur.
we do have to do it. we are driven to do it, its instinctual. innate.
from cain and abel and everything thereafter we have been at war with each other
with nature, with the elements, with our souls.

like ants, we do it, its what we do. it needs no explanation, there is none. 
its inevitable, like the bunny on the crocodiles back good intention is trumped by instinct.

Certainly there's that side to our nature, but we don't have to behave in that way.