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> a nuclear superpower invaded a disarmed neighbor, and is currently committing genocide on its territory.

As a fellow software developer, let me challenge both claims.

Regarding genocide, there is zero evidence of that. We can tell that by comparing the number of civilian victims whenever Russia bombs Ukraine, with the number of civilian victims when Israel bombs Gaza or Lebanon. While there is no excuse for "collateral damage" (that's the Western term, I'm sure Russians have a similar euphemism), and one civilian victim is one too many, it is clear that Russia is targeting infrastructure and not humans. It is throwing many more, and more powerful bombs than Israel and doing orders of magnitude fewer civilian victims. This (false) narrative may have worked, had the conflict between Israel and Palestine not restarted, providing a grim yet useful comparison point.

Regarding the first statement, the extent to which Ukraine was disarmed is subject to debate. After all, demilitarization is an explicit goal of the Russia invasion. The main reason Russia invaded Ukraine is to prevent it from being used as a NATO-powered bulwark against Russia in the future, as America often does with its "allies". According to your own morality, if this prevents a future invasion of the sort you decry, wouldn't it be morally justified to some extent?