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[Star Wars the Clone Wars] Why did the Jedi aid in retaking Umbarah when the Umbarans made a choice to join the separatists?

Maybe I have a bit of a misunderstanding of the Jedi code/Jedi way but I've been wondering about the invasion of Umbarah by the Republic with aid from the Jedi.

It seemed like the Umbarans made the choice as a people to go with the separatists. While obviously this is very bad for the Republic considering its strategic value

Why did the Jedi get involved? It seemed that they didn't invade separatist planets nor did they get involved in the choices made by people unless there was explicit coercion such as what happened with the Mon calamari. It seemed like there was some respect for self determination such as leaving Mandalore alone to be neutral and visiting the Toydarian king to make a fair bid for themselves as opposed to turning them to the republic by force.

So how come the Jedi got involved in Umbarah? Wasn't it the Umbarans choice to decide to go with the separatists? And wouldn't the Jedi not step in when self determined decisions were made? Or am I misunderstanding something with what happened to the Umbarans?
gpt
I don't know where you're getting this idea that the Jedi respected self determination, the Jedi were very willing to participate in offensives against separatists, Obi Wan was willing to invade the separatists on Utapu, the beginning of the war was on Geonosis which was very pro-separatist (and ultimately was sterilized for it), the clone wars series is full of offensives. Yes they were willing to negotiate when it was prudent like on Toydaria, but one of the big things they did which fell away from the Jedi path was becoming soldiers in the first place.