Russia didn't invade at all. It was a part of Russia and Russia *gave* it to Ukraine. There's a bilateral treaty between the two nations whereby Russia can have up to 25,000 troops there and Russia has had 16,000 troops there. They were there last month, they were there last year. Plus nearly everyone there is Russian. Who just gave a 96% mandate to rejoin Russia and GTFO of Ukraine which is in the middle of a Kosovo/Sarajevo style civil war with (hundreds of) Ukranians being killed by other Ukranians - leftists, being killed by neo-Nazis and outright fascists. The Crimeans want out and who could blame them? Nobody has died in Crimea and they want to keep it that way, and then there's the Chevron fracking deal with the Ukraine that Crimea won't have to suffer through. How could this possibly be called an invasion? Read the background on Crimea, Russia and the Ukraine here and here.
Here is a *partial* list of US invasions:
The list does not include the 1801-1805 US Marine Barbary War operations against Barbary pirates based in Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia and Libya , and also ignores massive US subversion of virtually all countries in the world.
(1) American Indian nations (1776 onwards, American Indian Genocide; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; 1844, Indians banned from east of the Mississippi; 1861 onwards, California genocide; 1890, Lakota Indians massacre), (2) Mexico (1836-1846; 1913; 1914-1918; 1923), (3) Nicaragua (1856-1857; 1894; 1896; 1898; 1899; 1907; 1910; 1912-1933; 1981-1990), (4) American forces deployed against Americans (1861-1865, Civil War; 1892; 1894; 1898; 1899-1901; 1901; 1914; 1915; 1920-1921; 1932; 1943; 1967; 1968; 1970; 1973; 1992; 2001), (5), Argentina (1890), (6), Chile (1891; 1973), (7) Haiti (1891; 1914-1934; 1994; 2004-2005), (8) Hawaii (1893-), (9) China (1895-1895; 1898-1900; 1911-1941; 1922-1927; 1927-1934; 1948-1949; 1951-1953; 1958), (10) Korea (1894-1896; 1904-1905; 1951-1953), (11) Panama (1895; 1901-1914; 1908; 1912; 1918-1920; 1925; 1958; 1964; 1989-), (12) Philippines (1898-1910; 1948-1954; 1989; 2002-), (13) Cuba (1898-1902; 1906-1909; 1912; 1917-1933; 1961; 1962), (14) Puerto Rico (1898-; 1950; ); (15) Guam (1898-), (16) Samoa (1899-), (17) Honduras (1903; 1907; 1911; 1912; 1919; 1924-1925; 1983-1989), (18) Dominican Republic (1903-1904; 1914; 1916-1924; 1965-1966), (19) Germany (1917-1918; 1941-1945; 1948; 1961), (20) Russia (1918-1922), (21) Yugoslavia (1919; 1946; 1992-1994; 1999), (22) Guatemala (1920; 1954; 1966-1967), (23) Turkey (1922), (24) El Salvador (1932; 1981-1992), (25) Italy (1941-1945); (26) Morocco (1941-1945), (27) France (1941-1945), (28) Algeria (1941-1945), (29) Tunisia (1941-1945), (30) Libya (1941-1945; 1981; 1986; 1989; 2011), (31) Egypt (1941-1945; 1956; 1967; 1973; 2013), (32) India (1941-1945), (33) Burma (1941-1945), (34) Micronesia (1941-1945), (35) Papua New Guinea (1941-1945), (36) Vanuatu (1941-1945), (37) Austria (1941-1945), (38) Hungary (1941-1945), (39) Japan (1941-1945), (40) Iran (1946; 1953; 1980; 1984; 1987-1988; ), (41) Uruguay (1947), (42) Greece (1947-1949), (43) Vietnam (1954; 1960-1975), (44) Lebanon (1958; 1982-1984), (45) Iraq (1958; 1963; 1990-1991; 1990-2003; 1998; 2003-2011), (46) Laos (1962-), (47) Indonesia (1965), (48) Cambodia (1969-1975; 1975), (49) Oman (1970), (50) Laos (1971-1973), (51) Angola (1976-1992), (52) Grenada (1983-1984), (53) Bolivia (1986; ), (54) Virgin Islands (1989), (55) Liberia (1990; 1997; 2003), (56) Saudi Arabia (1990-1991), (57) Kuwait (1991), (58) Somalia (1992-1994; 2006), (59) Bosnia (1993-), (60) Zaire (Congo) (1996-1997), (61) Albania (1997), (62) Sudan (1998), (63) Afghanistan (1998; 2001-), (64) Yemen (2000; 2002-), (65) Macedonia (2001), (66) Colombia (2002-)(67), Iraq (2003), (687) Pakistan (2005-), (69) Syria (2008; 2011-), (70) Uganda (2011), (71) Mali (2013), (72) Niger (2013) (73). Links blocked by Facebook highlighted in yellow
March 28 - Seven Decades of Nazi Collaboration: America’s Dirty Little Ukraine Secret http://www.thenation.com/article/seven-decades-nazi-collaboration-americas-dirty-little-ukraine-secret/
FEBRUARY 8, 2017: "In fact, Putin’s actions both in Donbass, where an indigenous rebellion broke out against the overthrow of the legally elected president in Kiev three years ago, and in Crimea, which had been part of Russia for more than 200 years (about as long as the United States has existed), was a direct reaction to the longstanding campaign by Washington and Brussels to bring Ukraine into NATO’s “sphere of influence,” itself a form of political aggression." https://www.thenation.com/article/ukraine-revisited/
10 Mar 2017: "Stick a fork in it, it’s done. There is no longer any reason for any sane person to believe the Russian hacking narrative, and therefore any of the anti-Russia sentiment that was built upon it. " http://www.newslogue.com/debate/386
Jul 16 2017: DNC tried to use Ukrainian sources against Trump, but backfires: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446 Democratic elected official says live on TV that it was very wrong that the DNC colluded with the Ukrainian intelligence service but that this can not compare in scale to the unproven Russian influence. WTF? 5:03 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mne1745Q6HA
Aug 22 2017 Frustrated in Syria, the US turns again to Ukraine http://www.mintpressnews.com/frustrated-syria-us-turns-ukraine-next-russian-proxy-war-gambit/231181/
Aug 23, 2017 The end of war on the cheap; the 20 year plan starting in 2012. http://thesaker.is/pentagon-makes-a-20-year-plan-while-washington-outsources-its-color-revolution/
Aug 24 2017 Washington mulls supplying Ukraine with lethal weapons – US defense secretary https://www.rt.com/news/400745-us-lethal-arms-ukraine/
Nov 15, 2017 Russia points out the US is protecting ISIS http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-russia-usa/russia-says-u-s-providing-cover-for-islamic-state-in-syria-idUSKBN1DE17E
Feb 07/2018 "...the big problem the US now faces is not that there has been a deep level of corruption and lawlessness in those organisations that are meant to enforce the rule of law, but that there are huge numbers of people in the political and media class that not only refuse to admit this, but are accusing those who have exposed the lawlessness of being lawless" http://www.theblogmire.com/the-globalist-cabal-bring-their-revolution-home/ Jul 9, 2018 - Human right groups insist Israel stop arming Nazis in Ukraine http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/rights-groups-demand-israel-stop-arming-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-1.6248727 Aug 11 2018: Rise of the Ukraine Nazis https://www.globalresearch.ca/this-is-the-real-americanized-nazi-ukraine/5650005 Jan 3, 2019: Ukraine US Weapons OPINION Washington Just Injected Serious Cash and Weapons into Ukraine’s Far-Right Regime http://www.mintpressnews.com/washington-injects-cash-and-weapons-into-ukraine-far-right-regime/253330/ Posted on September 30, 2019 by Yves Smith - From 2014: R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/09/from-2014-r-hunter-biden-should-declare-who-really-owns-his-new-ukrainian-employer-burisma-holdings.html Oct 9, 2019: Joe Biden’s Family Has Been Cashing in on His Career for Decades https://theintercept.com/2019/10/09/joe-hunter-biden-family-money/ OCTOBER 18, 2019: What Hunter Biden did on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma "Reuters was not able to independently verify the authenticity of the documents or how much money Hunter Biden received." https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hunter-biden-ukraine/what-hunter-biden-did-on-the-board-of-ukrainian-energy-company-burisma-idUSKBN1WX1P7 Nov 12, 2019: Here Are The Payments To Hunter Biden, Leaked From Ukraine https://creativedestructionmedia.com/investigations/2019/11/12/here-are-the-payments-to-hunter-biden-leaked-from-ukraine/ Nov 14, 2019 Ukraine For Dummies http://consortiumnews.com/2019/11/14/ray-mcgovern-ukraine-for-dummies January 27, 2020 - Hunter Biden's name used to legitimize sale of fraudulent tribal bonds https://www.indianz.com/News/2020/01/27/hunter-bidens-name-used-to-legitimize-sa.asp 29 Jan, 2020 - Ex-president Poroshenko investigated in Ukraine over embezzlement, allegedly stealing US aid https://www.rt.com/news/479526-ukraine-poroshenko-investigated-embezzlement-stealing/ 13 June 2020 - Pentagon announces $250M in Ukraine aid https://insidedefense.com/insider/pentagon-announces-250m-ukraine-aid 30 Sep, 2020 - Ukrainian authorities are investigating the death of a woman who was an employee of the US embassy in Kyiv who was found by railway tracks in a park on Wednesday. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-american-death-1.5744710 14 Oct, 2020 - Hunter Biden takes his waterlogged computer to a store for repairs, then forgets about it. On that hard drive were emails that contradicted the VP about who he met and when. Twitter censors this claiming they're "hacked" materials. https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/ https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/facebook-twitter-block-the-post-from-posting/ Oct 15 2020 - Glenn Greenwald - Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line Far More Dangerous Than What They Censor: Just weeks before the election, the tech giants unite to block access to incriminating reporting about their preferred candidate. https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/facebook-and-twitter-cross-a-line-far-more-dangerous-than-what-they-censor Oct. 15 2020 - Emails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese firm https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden-tried-to-cash-in-big-with-chinese-firm/ Dec 9, 2020 - Justice Department’s interest in Hunter Biden covered more than taxes Federal prosecutors also have investigated foreign ties, possible money laundering. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/justice-department-interest-hunter-biden-taxes-444139 Dec. 10, 2020 - Joe Biden's son Hunter says he is under investigation over taxes https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55254182 Jan 23, 2022 - U.S. orders families of embassy staffers to leave Ukraine amid fears of Russian invasion https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-embassy-ukraine-families-1.6324957 The Israel Factor in Neocons’ Anti-Russia Warmongering over Ukraine https://web.archive.org/web/20220203154641/https://israelpalestinenews.org/the-israel-factor-in-neocons-anti-russia-warmongering-over-ukraine/ Feb 3 2022 - "For its part, Germany also remains skeptical of an imminent Russian invasion. At this stage, Berlin sees no indication that Russia will move into Ukraine immediately, a senior German official said. Evidence that Moscow plans to act quickly may exist, but if the United States possesses it, it hasn’t shared it with the Germans, the official added." https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/01/british-government-laundered-fake-us-intelligence-on-ukraine.html Feb 28 2022 - "the plan was to subvert the nation’s constitution and install an unelected, anti-Russian government that would deep-six the deal with Moscow" https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2022/02/27/the-land-where-history-died/ April 14, 2022 - "The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most Americans." https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/05/patrick-lawrence-the-us-bubble-of-pretend/
