Ong what you're saying is we should try to sympathize with a guy who invaded another country. I don't care what his reasons are. His country is not being threatened by anything except his imagination.

On your analysis, now that we're out of the EU we should see it as a military threat (what with the whole "EU Army" and everything), and if Norway announces one day they're thinking of joining the EU, we should invade them first so they can't.

You can accuse me of blinkered thinking or virtue signalling or being woke or whatever all you want. But the fact is Putin started a war with no justification. It really is that black and white. There's no shame in taking the side of Ukraine, the shame is making apologies for a warmonger.