You have chosen to avoid the question in regards to the troop build up against Russia from Ukraine's border rather than explaining what "everyone knows" which presumably somehow included me even though I'm the one who asked that question. If everyone knew that, then times when I asked would result in a direct answer, rather than a dodge. Everyone knows 1+1=2 but if I asked enough people rest assured there would be someone brave enough to just answer the question. It is an important issue that deserves to be addressed head on, not avoided.

What you seem to be missing is that since the troop build-up is a generally accepted fact, that actually that gives you a burden of proof to show that it was not a threat to Russia and they were wrong to consider it a threat.

If someone asked me about a topic I've done hundreds of hours of research on, I'd be very happy to share my knowledge and cite my sources. If instead I failed to do so and simply told them to either entirely accept my conclusion or they should visit a hospital, which is not a place for learning about wars at all, then that would be most likely because I was emotionally bound to my conclusion for reasons I couldn't explain or defend and just wanted them to go away, and just wanted people to respond if they agreed with me. One of the least likely reasons is that I had the answer at my fingertips and simply wanted to verbally bully others who are less knowledgeable although it is within the realm of possibility.

Another thing to consider is that people who respond to internet posts are vastly more likely to be someone will respond if they disagree. That is because not because people are constantly wrong, its because there is no content in just saying "I agree". When you respond with personal attacks even if indirect to other people who could be reading the thread, you are actually providing a reason for people to disagree and distance them selves from your position because of the ad hominem fallacy of name calling rather than supporting your position.

And when you put all of this together, you can guess that wherever I stood before on the issue, I have moved further away rather than towards your position, which is likely the opposite of your intention. So once again, there is a long chain of events leading to the war which included an apparently aggressive act against Russia by Ukraine. And, that needs to be explained by more than telepathy of "everyone" just knowing the answer. Other people may not feel a need to adopt your values as their values. What is important to you, the Ukraine war, doesn't need to be important to them. So I also disagree that anyone who isn't informed about any specific topic should visit a hospital. The reasoning you are using is a bit too self-centered regardless of how sound and "obvious" it is.