Some westerners have a serious hollywood movie level misunderstanding of Russia and how it operates. They view Putin as an all powerful dictator character from the 1980s USSR, when his authority in current Russia is only partial, and always at risk from other factions of the oligarchy. And when it comes to Ukraine, their ridiculous overlooking of CIA activity in Ukraine starting in 2013, and the RAND Reports describing how the Pentagon could provoke a civil war between western Ukrainian nazis, and Eastern Russian speaking Ukrainians, culminating in a possible Russian invasion, is a case example of useful idiocy. What the west has done in, and to Ukraine for their own ends, is just as disgusting and criminal as the Russia invasion. And this time, unlike the last time they did something like this (in Afghanistan in the 80s) it’s going to cost them.