Hey man plenty of people didn’t want to be part of the Union which is why they seceded in the first place. And they fought viciously to try to stay independent. The victors write history so the APUSH curriculum tends to view the whole Lincoln reuniting the country thing as a good thing. Had the Confederacy won the textbooks would have celebrated how their founding fathers Davis and Lee fought for their freedom and slavery and they’d have a holiday to commemorate it and all that jazz.
Whoever wins this war gets to write history. And I’m saying if Putin wins he can write it so that he takes the place of Russian Abraham Lincoln. He can pick whatever reason as to why it was justified.