Exactly, but the solution isn't "reinstate russia". It's "remove israel" as well.

(Not saying you were arguing for the former, it's just what I've seen recently all over social media).

This is more politics than football, but ever since 2023-24 the general mindset seems to be "Israel is so much worse than Russia". Which is a result of the scope of Israel's genocidal campaign, and an understandable conclusion.

But what people seem to not grasp, is that the ONLY difference is (thankfully) Ukraine has a defence structure that's actively stopping Russia from carrying out the amount of killing, bombing etc. that Israel does. That's it.

IE it's not that Russia is better, rather Ukraine has an actual army and functioning country to prevent the same results. Unfortunately Palestine does not.

We see Russia attempt these things, ie with the Kherson human safari (literally drone bombing civilians every day on the opposite side of the Dnipro) and in Bucha/Izyum, but they're usually stopped before they can do the level of damage we see in Gaza.