Last time I checked, the Russian government didn't operate in my name. It seems to me that petitioning a foreign government for redress of wrongs committed against a third party is something of a waste of energy.

Asking my own government to stop doing in my name things which I do not approve seems like a good use of energy. Or at least more productive.

People protest against foreign governments all the time. Remember the Chinese Olympic torch run? And the UN in NYC has protestors pretty much non-stop.

And it probably it would NOT be a waste of time, since the Russians are surely taking world opinion into account. In fact, they are probably gauging us fairly shrewdly, and calculating that you leftists have pretty much got us paralyzed (and Europe totally paralyzed), and so they can attack small nations and commit atrocities without much risk.

This war is happening partly because Putin looked at YOU, and said, "There's nothing there."

Actually, this is a rare instance where "peace protests" might actually tend towards producing peace, instead of war!

Putin is surely hazarding on lefty nihilism making any making any firm action by NATO (which is probably what would really produce peace) politically impossible. If you lefties were protesting against Russia he would have to revise his calculations.

But my bet is that he knows you as well as I do. So we get war.