Ukrainians also didn't want to fight back in 2004-2005 during the Orange Revolution. It was just a bunch of urbanite progressives protesting "for democracy," toppling statues, and burning shit in hope that one day they will be admitted into the EU. Then the zrada-peremoga cycle eroded their critical thinking abilities even further, creating widespread paranoia, encouraging militarism, leading to the events of 2014, and then eventually 2022.
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Now that said, Canada isn't Ukraine, it doesn't have the same history of violence and anarchy. The EU is also not the EU of 20 years ago, the globalists have had a rough decade, and current day America isn't Russia. But the parallels are still hard to ignore.