This is just annoying "Gaslighting" and nothing more. Geopolitics is way more complex than such simplistic viewpoints. Here is one of my previous comments with links to some enlightening reading material: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30559136#30565003
There are a lot of countries particularly in Africa, Middle East and Asia who have gone on record saying they understand the Russian pov without condoning it. Everybody knew something bad was going to happen if NATO and Russia kept up their tit-for-tats with the 2014 Crimean annexation being the biggest red flag in the sequence of events. NATO/US/EU are fully to blame as much as Russia for the current suffering of the Ukrainians (and the Russians).
There are a lot of countries particularly in Africa, Middle East and Asia who have gone on record saying they understand the Russian pov without condoning it. Everybody knew something bad was going to happen if NATO and Russia kept up their tit-for-tats with the 2014 Crimean annexation being the biggest red flag in the sequence of events. NATO/US/EU are fully to blame as much as Russia for the current suffering of the Ukrainians (and the Russians).