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The invasion only just started a few hours ago. It's not like we saw all of the casualties immediately when they last invaded – hell, it was several months later that the a Russian SAM was used to shoot down an airplane of civilians.

> Yet US rhetoric on this was basically "Putin is going to glass Kiev and murder everybody".

No, it wasn't. It was that Putin wants to control Ukraine, and plans to invade. Today he went on TV and said that Ukraine is not a sovereign nation. He annexed the Crimean peninsula in 2014, and is annexing the DNR and LNR regions as we speak.