Empires annex and control territories as their own.

You know an impressive amount about the 20th century. But less about the rest of history. This is not in fact how empires act. Annexation is a rarity. If you look at how many countries Napoleon annexed, it's quite few. Same for the Romans and the Athenians, who preferred alliances instead.

Then you can be also retarded and say so about the continental USA (a textbook federation).

Ironically, I was talking to an American Ukraine supporter who assured me that the US had never taken lands from its neighbors. When I brought up the Mexican Cession, he got mad.

Calley was told to kill. By his company commander (Captain Medina, who killed a woman personally after landing his command helicoper), probably relying orders from brigade commander (Henderson) through the battalion commander (Barker) who planned the attack on Pinkville together with field commander Medina. It wasn't also just his platoon, nor only just the Charlie Company, and it wasn't just one village. Maybe you should read about it sometime. Here's some from guess who: https://archive.ph/7l7sG

I will look into it further, but I believed that Calley was told in some general terms to kill enemies, and he decided to murder innocent civilians.

But even if this story is correct, it means that no one was ever held accountable for these crimes, which are worse than what the Russians are alleged to have done in Bucha.

After he searched the basket and found syringes and other medical supplies, Medina shot the woman twice in the head.").

This is strange. What point is there to this violence?

They just (in May) approved a new law, giving up to 15 years in prison for "false reporting" about the war.

It is absolutely terrible that people are only allowed to have one opinion on the war in Russia. And same in Germany and the Czech Republic. As far as I know, none of these have yet persecuted dissenters on the war though.