Like, right now in Europe, Russia is actively jamming GPS systems of commercial airliners in Kaliningrad... how isn't this considered aggression?
Why are Western countries just sitting idle, stating "oh well... its just Russia doing its thing."
What kind of world is this where a handful of people, Putin and a close group of the regime, get to dictate the lives of hundreds of millions of democratic citizens?
World full of peaceful people who don't want any kind of violence, so they try to fight as little as currently possible.
You are singling out "democratic citizens" as if it is some better kind of people.
Your "democratic citizens" cheered for the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 and reelected Bush even though it had become clear by that time that the "justification" for the invasion was fake.
Not impeaching Bush in 2003 was stupid, reelecting him was callous.
They're not better, they're free to think, express their opinions, have agency over their lives. They're fortunate because they were born in a given place, or because they, or their ancestors fought for that change.
My democratic citizens are free to change their minds and change their leaders whenever they see fit. That's the beauty of democracies, it renews itself.
I can see you're resentful and stuck in the past, but you're on a Western platform speaking openly about it - you won't be arrested. Maybe you should look at the present and what oppressed citizens are allowing Putin to do in Ukraine.