https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/21/how-team-bush-escaped-justice-over-iraq/
In this article, Professor Cohn uses the sophistical False equivalency argument, comparing the US illegal wars based on lies, with Russia preventing a massacre which was ongoing for 8 years, with a crushing coup de grace planned, only to be preempted by Russia's intervention.
Re: Russia's 'illegal invason'. With the Donbass getting shelled every day for 8 years, and the volume of shelling increased from 40 t0 1000 per day, and a planned invasion to crush the Donbass people that both Poroshenko, Hollande and Merkel admitted was the plan all along, Law Professor Cohn would prefer to see these people slaughtered than, heaven forbid, Putin, after being pushed by the Russian Parliament to recognize the two Republics as independent (Ukraine had refused to provide services or pay pensions to those people), and finally put a stop to those horrid plans.
The US itself used the Responsibility to Protect doctrine to justify its actual illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya, based on lies, while Russia was using this principle in light of ACTUAL responsibility to protect Russian speakers, not to mention the ACTUAL plan of Nato to destroy Russia using Ukraine.
Cohn is typical of Western virtue signallers, like Chomsky, Benjamin and so many others, whose countries have never been invaded losing millions of people, not just in WWII, but after the Soviet Revolution, the Napoleonic invasion and many others.
Russia doesn't have the 'luxury' of living up to the Western moralists' expectations.
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/21/how-team-bush-escaped-justice-over-iraq/