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The "invasion" began in 2014 when the US orchestrated a hostile takeover of the Ukrainian government. It was then continued with several years of the nazis in Ukraine bombing the Donbass, breaching two peace treaties. Russia then responded to that agression, which one can think a lot of things about. The "invasion" was the US-coup-government of Ukraine invading the Donbass.
I thought the biggest difference between Russian and US propaganda was that Russians knows its propaganda. I remember I heard an interview of one of these Ukrainian Nazi leaders, Yan Petrovskiy, running much of the "Ukraine Nazi leaders civil war" where Putin later invaded. He is a Russian born in Norway. So is the Russian propaganda getting better, or are Russians getting dumber to believe it?
What are you trying to say? That the many documented breaches of Minsk 1 and 2 didn't happen, that Azov battalion didn't get integrated into the military and government, or that observing the events that led to war is propaganda?
If Putin said that grass is green, then that doesn't suddenly make it purple.
I think you need to consider that you yourself are not immune to propaganda and your idea of what propaganda is; how it disseminates; what purpose it serves; and who the largest purveyors of it is in the west is lacking.