Apart from the UK, none of the countries in the EU sent troops to Iraq.

Obviously though they've just been saving them for the Evil Imperial European Army, waiting for the day they could go Hitlerpolean on Russia. I'm sure there's some guy online who says so, and I choose to believe him.

Seriously though, I don't know what point you're trying to make here Ong. "We" (i.e., some countries in the West) have done some really bad things in the past so what Russia is doing now isn't that big a thing? Amristar was a worse massacre than Mariupol? NATO has bullied Russia into attacking Ukraine? Abraham Lincoln was woke?

I mean you're one small step away from saying "Putin isn't as bad as Caligula, so we should leave him be."