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I had the rule of thumb, "if the US state department likes it, I don't." So if Putin felt like he had a good reason to oppose NATO and enter the Donbas region I was ready to believe him. I guess I was being uncritical in that sense. But it's not like I was going to materially support Russia in the endeavor or sing their praises for it anyway. Right at the outset I thought of it like sending people who don't want to fight into combat during Dark Souls 3 where the first flame is only embers. 2 nobodys nowhere fighting over nothing. So now I guess the question would be "how would I feel about Russia-Ukraine if Putin started the conflict because he was bored instead of a good reason?"
I would argue that any action that weakens NATO and American hegemony at all would be in Russia's material interest, and thus he would have some material reason to do it almost by necessity. However, even if he had objectively bad motivation to start the conflict, there would still be room for critical support.
putin didn't start the conflict, everything downstream of euromaidan did and that happened because of some trade deal that the banderites and nato didn't like. depending on how you want to distribute credit between the west and ukraine's festering nazis.