I still have no idea of the basis on which you seem to think Russia's ongoing occupations in Ukraine and Georgia are no big deal, or somehow justified. The wall of text seemed to be about avoiding answering that question.
I haven't really presented that opinion here, but sure, in the big context of things I don't really see them as that big of a deal.
Crimea was annexed peacefully when it became clear that Kiev intended to disperse the civil disobedience in the east militarily, when it became clear that the demand of those doing the civil disobedience (that a re-election had to be held and the previous president had to be allowed to be a candidate) would be denied, when the mainly Russian speaking population of Crimea were likely to face civil war lest they accepted to, in a sense, become second class citizens in their own country.
It also made a lot of strategical sense in regards to Russian national security, to secure their black sea fleet and its bases on crimea when Ukraine were on the verge of collapse.
Kiev cut off the only real fresh water supply that flows in a canal towards Crimea, a crime against humanity for sure, later when severe floods hit Crimea a Ukrainian official joked that "they have asked for water for a long time, and now god has given them too much" (presented as dry humor).
A Crimean asked by a journalist what he thought about the Ukrainian situation and the annexation said he was glad to be outside that mad house.
My main source of news is the BBC world service, I've listened to it every day for 15 years or so, both of the above statements are among the few things I've heard there about Crimea. It's just that I find it really strange that they pretty much never cover the situation in Crimea, must be because they cannot get there one might think, that there's an iron curtain, but then it's even more strange that they never covers this difficulty in getting into Crimea, that they never speak of the iron Curtain.
(Reminds me of the recent refugee crisis where Poland refused a couple thousand refugees passage through their land, as well as refusing all journalists access to the eastern border regions, a couple Norwegian journalist made a case where they with hidden cameras snuck close to the polish border and interviewed a polish family who wished to remain anonymous due to the high political tension and possible reprimand they might face if anyone found out. The strange thing is that no journalist made a case out of the difficulty of getting to the refugees on the Belarus side, it must have been difficult as I didn't hear any refugees interviewed on BBC, maybe they were not allowed by their editor?)
The situation in Ukraine is a tragedy, and it's far from ok, but Russia's role in it is peanuts compared to how the west has decimated country after country, deprived hundreds of thousands from a dignified life and caused immense suffering and strife in such a large portion of the world. The west also played a role in creating the conflict in Ukraine btw, with our full support to an illegitimate coup, promising them that all will be better and fine for them if they managed to sever all ties to Russia, that they ditch the trade deals with Russia in favour of worse deals with the west, but that's ok as they would get unimaginable economical growth by being embraced by Europe, or some such fantasy. Like being part of EU (a trade league) is a golden ticket worth waging civil war over. Of course the Euromaidan movement was lead by euro centric ultra nationalists as well, who immediately started removing the system of multiple official languages in Ukraine by region, taking away the language of almost 50% of it's population, which a large portion of again didn't even know Ukrainian as a second language. Who real quick started removing statues that had ties to Russian culture and history.
Abkhazia and south Ossetia being occupied is a disputed issue, they are frozen conflict zones, and it's naïve to claim the conflict is entirely created by Russia, to say that the inhabitants of Abkhazia doesn't matter, and that Georgia is only a victim.
They are disputed regions that Russia does not technically lay claim on, the inhabitants do not pay taxes to Russia, nor serve in the Russian military, they are considered an independent state by Russia and some others, while most sees them as autonomous regions within Georgia, a bit like the autonomous Zapatista Territories in Mexico. The inhabitants does however receive pensions and other monetary benefits from Russia, and are by Russia considered Citizens living abroad, they have Russian passports because they cannot get Georgian passports and no one will recognize Abkhazian passports for travel.
The west did start the precedence of recognizing the independence of disputed territories with Kosovo where we broke the peace deal terms, that stated that Kosovo was part of Serbia.
Russia is in that sense not that much worse when they take side with military inferior and disgruntled territories like south Ossetia and Abkhazia was/is.
The west has. with impunity, done far worse atrocities and crimes against humanity the last 20 years than Russia have.