It's extra offensive to those who countries have been invaded in the past, like those in the Middle East or Vietnam or Korea, because this is what a war where civilian casualties are being avoided by the invading force looks like in the modern day and it's received a level of scorn orders of magnitude beyond what those wars received in the western media.

If Russia replicated the US's invasion of Iraq or Vietnam on Ukraine, there would be tens of thousands of people dead already. And yet could the media even be more negative and anti-Russian as it is now? They're already virtually saying that Putin's throne of skulls is being assembled in the middle of Moscow as we speak. Meanwhile, a single American drone strike in Yemen killed the same number of civilians that had been killed in the entire invasion in a week and there was basically nothing on that, because it's just example #849292 of America doing what it usually does.

You don't even have the go through the (very recent) historical record! America, in conjunction with Saudi Arabia, is literally doing an invasion of a nation 2500 miles south of Ukraine as I sit and type this out, and has killed over 150,000 people directly and more than double that indirectly, which is orders of magnitude above that which has been killed in Ukraine, and I can't think of a single fucking person on Reddit, or any bluechecks on Twitter, who give even the slightest fuck about it! Let alone put the Yemen flag in their profile, let alone create an entire propaganda campaign against the US and Saudi Arabia, let alone create a barrage of sanctions unlike anything that has been seen in our lives against them!

Even if you believe that the US's sins are instantly resolved the second it gets out of conflict because now it "knows better" and "won't repeat its mistakes", that still doesn't make the United States better, because they're slaughtering more civilians than Russia is right this very moment and has no plans to stop! It's maddening!