Or it could be seen as an insulting dismissal of the fact that your government is causing tons of harm to tens of millions of people. If you want to discuss that's fine but it's very rude to flamebait and run.
Rude, yeah. But I can neither support my opinion effectively, nor leave it unstated. I'd rather be rude than unheard - the former at least leaves a slim chance of having the opinion considered.
As a general rule, or maybe as a rule of thumb - I don't know exactly which is more appropriate - I find it rudest to
assume. I like being objective, when I can, and I find assumptions such as "there are Russian military forces in Ukraine" to be fairly rude to Russia as a whole. Weapons and equipment supplied by Russia? Quite obvious. Russia being the driving cause of this all, or standing to benefit the most from these events? Actually... not so much. It's definitely a large player here, but it's plainly obvious that these events are not quite going to be all that beneficial to Russia. Did Russia act spontaneously, or react? Was this a long-term plan, or a last-minute desperate gamble? With how little people as a whole actually know of what goes on between Russia and NATO, and how little of their attention - on either side - was on Crimea and Ukraine, there is no telling what events led up to the riots in Ukraine behind the scenes. Likewise, with how much effort is made by Russia to appear innocent of the whole affair, there is no evidence of Russian
military being in Ukraine - whether or not they are there. Just as there is no evidence of, say, NATO military being there -
whether or not they are there. Except if you see any man in military fatigues holding an AKM or an Igla, sitting on a barricade in Donetsk - you will just
know he has to be from Russia, because that's your bias - despite the fact that he could be Ukrainian, or even NATO for all you know, and you'd never see a difference because it's not written on his forehead and he doesn't have military ID or insignia.
That is the kind of assumption I want you people not to make. I don't mean to say that these are not, or can not be Russian - I just want people to not automatically assume these things, without actual proof.