The simple answer to this is that after a year of this my heart is genuinely breaking at how many people appear to have no moral compass on an issue as simple as whether an invader is justified in killing tens of thousands of the people it invaded.

This isn't complicated. Nobody should need to be persuaded, any more than they should need to be persuaded that Putin shouldn't be killing people in Ukraine or that the Sudanese government shouldn't be slaughtering people in Darfur. But here, for some reason, people can't see it. Some out of ignorance, but some, I suspect, out of something else.

That said, you're right, I'm being harsher with you than you deserve. My apologies. But goddamn man, please educate yourself about this history or recognise that you don't know much about it and approach conversations accordingly, instead of thoughtlessly regurgitating headlines and Twitter talking points at me.