Ukraine is a western country invaded by an enemy of the west. You can still be anti violence but it’s a different situation.
We are funding a meat grinder that has no sign of victory for either side anywhere in sight. This has been going on for years now. Long enough where we need to consider a diplomatic compromise, we can’t just keep pumping money into another country waiting for enough men to die, it is fundamentally evil.
I know people feel that they are morally justified in funding the conflict forever because Russia is the aggressor. But at a certain point it becomes evil not to seek an end to the killing. Have you watched videos of the horrific things that are happening over there with drone warfare? How can you watch that and say “it’s okay to let this go on forever because technically Russia is the invader”?
And then his mind changed when confronted with WWII. “I am a pacifist in principle, but I am not an absolute pacifist.”
>“it’s okay to let this go on forever because technically Russia is the invader”?
There is no "technically". Russia is the invader. Russia can leave at any time and there will be peace very quickly.
Certainly applying the Einstein solution of a spread of nukes would end the war, very quickly.
Nobody likes war, but letting your country be subjugated by an evil dictator is worse.