America's been doing it for longer.
every time someone deflects with 'but America did it for longer!' it's usually just an attempt to make this incident less worse than it is. The problem is that
Russia still did it anyway, and the fact that America has propped up and still propping up insurgencies across the world doesn't change that. If a country was carrying out a genocide against millions of people
now, is it really appropriate to suddenly say that 'oh but America is worse because they killed a bunch of Native Americans in the past and took their land' when the discussion is about how crappy it is for Russia to incite a civil war in the Ukraine? Just because someone commits less burglaries than the next guy doesn't mean should excuse the first guy for committing less burglaries.