> as well as bio-engineering "research" facilities that were ostensibly fronts for weapons manufacturing.

What there is no evidence of this in any reality.

> "Colonial war" and "genocidal intent" really don't factor into what Russia expected to be a fast annexation of its former territory.

They keep talking about how Ukrainians aren't real people or a real country and that they will quote "kill as many Ukrainians" as it takes.

Sounds like genocide to me.

> Here is the state department talking about how they are worried that Russians will acquire the US funded biolabs in Ukraine: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5005520/senator-rubio-questio...

That is not evidence that they are a front for weapons manufacturing and you know it. The bio labs fake news is just Russian propaganda.

That's why my post prefaced the weapons bit with "ostensibly". The labs themselves definitely existed.

In any case, this is a tangent. The fact that Russia added some extra phony justifications for invading doesn't automatically mean that their primary reason for invading was to commit genocide.