Are you kidding me? "Just sitting there"? As in just innocently minding its own business?

I don't think so. 

Sure, most everyone would concede that Russia had no legal authority to invade Ukraine, but that doesn't necessarily mean that Ukraine was "just sitting there" innocently minding its own business. 

The fact that that conservative-oriented libertarian honestly thinks that Ukraine was "just sitting there" innocently minding its own business goes to show how much the U.S. national-security state has succeeded in imbuing people with such an extreme anti-Russia animus that it blinds them from being able to critically analyze the actions of either the U.S. regime or the U.S.-aligned Ukrainian regime.

As we learn more about what was going on before the invasion, it is becoming clear that Ukraine was doing the exact opposite of "just sitting there" innocently minding its own business when it was invaded by Russia.

Instead, it is clear that for many years Ukraine has been partnering with one of the most aggressive regimes in history — the U.S. government, with the aim of permitting the Pentagon to install its nuclear missiles on Russia's border in Ukraine, pointed directly at Moscow and other Russian cities.