This has probably long been discussed here, I know it has from other speakers, but here is Kennedy also setting out a history evidently denied by some here.
The discourse is purposefully dumbed down, shallow and overly simplistic, so as to manufacture consent.
Were the conversation honest and sophisticated enough, no one would support this war. It's simply not worth risking World War 3 over whether a section of predominately ethnically Russian and Russian speaking Ukraine is governed by Kiev or Moscow. It is decidedly not in your (average John Q taxpayer) interest to prosecute this war, which will not be won without NATO intervention.